{"id":534,"date":"2021-07-30T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bpo.org\/archives\/classics-repertoire-1935-1936-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:07:16","slug":"classics-repertoire-1953-1954","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bpo.org\/archives\/classics-repertoire-1953-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"BPO Classics Repertoire 1953-1954"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]15, 17 November 1953<\/strong>
\nMozart – Symphony No.39 in E-flat major, K.543
\nMendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64
\nStrauss, R. – Don Juan, op.20
\nSchumann – Symphony No.4 in D minor, op.120
\nOtto Klemperer, guest conductor
\nMichael Rabin, violinist<\/p>\n

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29 November, 1 December 1953<\/strong>
\nVerdi – La Forza del Destino: Overture
\nBach – Concerto for Four Pianos
\nBerlioz – Symphonie fantastique, op.14
\nEfrem Kurtz, guest conductor
\nBuffalo Philharmonic Piano Quartet
\nAda Kopetz, pianist
\nMoreland Kortkamp, pianist
\nEmmet Vokes, pianist
\nHerbert Rogers, pianist<\/p>\n

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13, 15 December 1953<\/strong>
\nHaydn – Symphony No.88 in G major
\nStravinsky – Firebird Suite
\nRachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18
\nEfrem Kurtz, guest conductor
\nTheodore Lettvin, pianist<\/p>\n

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3 January 1954<\/strong>
\nGould – Interplay (ballet)
\nTchaikovsky – Swan Lake (excerpts: ballet)
\nCopland – Billy the Kid (ballet)
\nChopin – Les Sylphides (ballet)
\nBanfield – The Combat (ballet)
\nTchaikovsky – Black Swan pas de deux (ballet)
\nBernstein – Fancy Free (ballet)
\nThe Ballet Theater
\nJoseph Levine, music director
\nAlicia Alonso, ballerina
\nIgor Youskevitch, danseur
\nJohn Kriza, danseur
\nMelissa Hayden, ballerina<\/p>\n

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17, 19 January 1954<\/strong>
\nPuccini – La Boh\u00e8me
\nJoseph Rosenstock, conductor
\nLaurel Hurley, soprano
\nAdelaide Bishop, soprano
\nDavis Cunningham, tenor
\nVirgil Hale, tenor
\nHugh Thomson, baritone
\nNorbert Winkler, baritone
\nHerbert Beattie, bass
\nEarl Obermeyer, bass
\nSamuel Herr, bass
\nCyrus Hamlin, bass<\/p>\n

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31 January, 2 February 1954<\/strong>
\nDukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
\nTchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, op.23
\nProkofiev – The Stone Flower: Wedding Suite
\nTchaikovsky\/Kostelanetz – Queen of Spades Suite
\nEnesco – Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major, op.11
\nAndre Kostelanetz, guest conductor
\nPaul Badura-Skoda, pianist<\/p>\n

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14, 16 February 1954<\/strong>
\nRossini – Semiramide: Overture
\nProkofiev – Symphony No.7 in C-sharp minor, op.131
\nBrahms – Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op.56a
\nIbert – Escales (Ports of Call)
\nMilton Katims, conductor<\/p>\n

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28 February, 2 March 1954<\/strong>
\nBeethoven – Leonore Overture No.3, op.72
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92
\nBeethoven – Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
\nJosef Krips, conductor
\nJascha Heifetz, violinist<\/p>\n

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7 March 1954<\/strong>
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.2 in D major, op.36
\nBeethoven – Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano, op.56
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67
\nJosef Krips, conductor
\nAlexander Schneider, violinist
\nPaul Tortelier, cellist
\nMieczys\u0142aw Horszowski, pianist<\/p>\n

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14, 16 March 1954<\/strong>
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.4 in B-flat major, op.60
\nBeethoven – Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, op.58
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, op.55 “Eroica”
\nJosef Krips, conductor
\nInes Carrillo, pianist<\/p>\n

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28, 30 March 1954<\/strong>
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.8 in F major, op.93
\nBeethoven – Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, op.37 (28 March)
\nBeethoven – Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, op.73 “Emperor” (30 March)
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68 “Pastorale”
\nJosef Krips, conductor
\nArtur Rubinstein, pianist<\/p>\n

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4 April 1954<\/strong>
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.1 in C major, op.21
\nBeethoven – Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125 “Chorale”
\nJosef Krips, conductor
\nHans Vigeland, chorus master
\nGertrude Lutzi, soprano
\nMargaret Snow Roy, alto
\nJohn McCollum, tenor
\nLorenzo Alvary, bass[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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