Years
1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1939 | 1940

The original impetus for this work came about when I was looking for information about Stokowski performances. I was trying to find out the number of times did he conducted Schumann. Searching through Hunt's book I realized that it would be a lot easier to access this information if it were on the Net. Using the Net all the researcher would have to do is to enter the specific name and hit the search button.

Much of what I have produced here is based on the work of John Hunt. His concert register, published in 1996, attempted to list every single concert Stokowski conducted from 1909 to 1975. His work, in turn, was largely based on a series of the concerts published in Toccata, the journal of the Leopold Stokowski Society. Both were missing most of the concert information from the 1933-41 seasons. Frederick Fellers later supplied the information for these seasons in a supplement published by the Leopold Stokowski Society. I have pulled together information from all three sources in preparing this list. The Leopold Stokowski Society has been responsible for many, many valuable releases of recordings Stokowski made in Philadelphia. You can find information about them in the Discography.

Information about the Leopold Stokowski Society can be found at: www.stokowskisociety.net

Mr. Hunt's work does contain a few errors, which is natural given the scope of his work. In fact I am sure there are some in here as well. I have made corrections as best I can. On 28-29 November 1913 Arbor is mentioned as the composer whose music is performed by Grimson following the regular concert. Oliver Daniel's biography has a list of first performances by Stokowski. On that date a premiere is listed by the composer Arbos and I assume a typo was made here and corrected it. Both Mr. Hunt and Oliver Daniel list a 15 January 1915 US premiere by Stokowski of the Paderewski Symphony. In fact the symphony was given a world and US premiere in 1909 by Max Fiedler in Boston. Omitted from both Hunt and Daniel's book is the world premiere of Henry Lang's Symphony #1 by Stokowski in 1914.

One of the rewards I got from all this work was noticing interesting details about Stokowski's programming. In 1936 he took the Philadelphia Orchestra on a tour around and across the US. While going through the South, Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama, he included William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony. It is hard for us to remember (and in some cases impossible) that at this time in our history this was not only an unpopular political statement, it was also possibly dangerous. Schéhérazade is arguably Stokowski's favorite piece given that he performed it 35 times between 1910 and 1935 including one ballet performance. I find the oddest that he programmed Bruckner only twice, the 4^th and then 7^th Symphonies.

Each season is preceded by a commentary. I will first provide general information about the season and then list premieres. Where possible I provide information about the composers but there are many who no longer well known, if they are known at all. Sources I have consulted include: Gramophone's "Grove" on line, Classical Music Composer index, and Google. Towards the end of this project my friend Ed Johnson recommended I get Oscar Thompson's Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians to help find more information. This tome was very helpful. It is about the size of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. The copy I have is the 1964 edition and so in some cases there is only the date of birth. Finally, some years ago Brian Plumb published a listing of the Philadelphia concerts in the Leopold Stokowski Society's journal Toccata. Ed Johnson sent them to me and they were also invaluable in this effort. Frequently the program listed by Mr. Hunt is followed by the comment, "Vocal items… " These were not actually after the concert but integrated in it. Since Mr. Hunt did not indicate where I have followed his format and listed them at the end.

This list includes the period from his first concert in 1909 through the Philadelphia years. I hope to eventually publish the register from 1941 through his last public concert in 1975. There are, however, glaring gaps and missing information. To give you and idea here are a few things I hope to find out. In Philadelphia Stokowski performed with Kate Smith but there is no mention of this in Hunt's book or Oliver Daniels'. Concert information of the AAYO tours in South America is nonexistent and that for the US tour the following year is spotty. Further, it has been pointed out to me that the list in Mr. Hunt's book includes information about broadcasts with the NBCSO but not from programs that were not broadcast. If any of you can provide information regarding these please contact me.

Finally, I must make sure I offer special thanks to the renowned Stokowski expert Edward Johnson for pointing out errors and inconsistencies that I have changed.

1909

1909: This was Stokowski's conducting premiere. Olga Samaroff, helped organize Stokowski's first two concerts. She was a gifted pianist and soloist in the first concert. Influential people from Cincinnati attended, probably at her invitation. They were looking for a new conductor to help improve the quality of their symphony. They found one.

Paris: 12 May 1909
Colonne Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: "March" from Symphony #6 "Pathétique"
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Olga Samaroff, piano)
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches

London: 18 May 1909
New Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3 (Francis MacMillen, violin)
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches

Stokowski's first season as a music director was indicative of his future. Most interesting is the list of what are now considered to be famous soloists who played with him and the Cincinnati Orchestra: Busoni and Kreisler are two of the names that stick out. The others may be less known today, but in their time they drew an audience. Stokowski's repertoire is impressive for so young a conductor including: Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt, Brahms, Beethoven, and Haydn. It is also interesting that Stokowski took the Cincinnati Orchestra on a tour of Ohio. Imagine getting an entire orchestra on a train, riding from Dayton to Cleveland overnight and then giving a concert that day. I think Mark Twain said it best, "It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious." While Dayton and Cleveland probably had good-sized concert halls, may of the places the orchestra went to, like Connersville (which I cannot find on any Ohio map) had only small "opera houses" that seated 200-400 people. They would host traveling Minstrel groups, lecturers and the occasional traveling orchestra. He made sure that "contemporary" composers were programmed. Of course Rachmaninoff would be considered a "modern" composer for the time and another was Tor Aulin (1866-1914), Swedish violinist, composer and conductor. (10-11 December) The soloist in his concerto was Maud Powell, and American born woman violinist. While on tour in Columbus, Ohio the soloist in the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto is Maria Carrena, another woman. I am not sure if these soloists were previously engaged or Stokowski was already making a statement about women in classical music. If so, it may be that his wife had a lot to do with it. So, Stokowski starts his career championing contemporary composers. In January he gives the US premiere of Glière's Symphonic Poem, Sirenen the first of over 200 premieres he conducted.

Cincinnati: 26-27 November 1909
Cincinnati Orchestra
All of his concerts the first three seasons were with the Cincinnati Orchestra.

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture
Beethoven: Symphony #5
Weber: Freischutz Overture
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Ohio Northern University: 30 November 1909

Handel: Messiah

St. Mary's: 1 December 1909 (Afternoon)

Handel: Messiah

Piqua: 1 December 1909 (Evening)

Handel: Messiah

Oberlin: 2-3 December 1909

Handel: Messiah

Cincinnati: 10-11 December 1909

Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches
Tor Aulin: Violin Concerto #3 (Maud Powell, violin)
Tchaikovsky: Symphonie #6 "Pathétique"

Cincinnati: 17-18 December 1909

Brahms: Symphony #3
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Smetana: The Moldau
Vocal items by Beethoven and Brahms w/ Koerner

1910

Cincinnati: 7-8 January 1910
Cincinnati Orchestra
All of his concerts the first three seasons were with the Cincinnati Orchestra.

R. Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Liszt: Les Preludes
Items with vocal declamation by Schubert, Schumann and Schillings w. Wullner

Cincinnati: 21-22 January 1910

Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great"
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 (Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano)
Wagner: Fliegende Hollander Overture
Note: Rachmaninoff's debut with Stokowski.

Dayton: 28 January 1910

Sibelius: Symphony #1
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)
Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3

31 January ???

Cincinnati: 4-5 February 1910

Sibelius: Symphony #1
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)
Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3

Cincinnati: 11 February 1910

Weber: Freischutz Overture
Wagner: Lohengrin Act 3 Prelude
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, excerpt
Also included piano solo music of Rubinstein, Chopin and Mendelssohn played by Maude Allen

Cincinnati: 18-19 February 1910

Bach: Suite #3
Haydn: Symphony #100
Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 (Ferruccio Busoni, piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Cincinnati: 23 February 1910

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Hugo Heerman, violin)
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica"

Cincinnati: 4-5 March 1910

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Hugo Heerman, violin)
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica"

Muncie: 7 March 1910

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

St. Mary's: 8 March 1910

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

Cleveland: 9 March 1910
Soloist: Marcella Sembrich in vocal items.

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

Wooster: 10 March 1910

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

Akron: 11 March 1910

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

Findlay: 12 March 1910

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

Cincinnati: 18-19 March 1910
Soloist: Louise Kirkby-Lunn in vocal items.

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)
MacDowell: Indian Suite
Program also included vocal items.

Columbus: 28 March 1910

Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Maria Carreno, piano)
Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

Dayton: 29 March 1910

Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Maria Carreno, piano)
Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

Cincinnati: 1-2 April 1910

Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Maria Carreno, piano)
Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

Cincinnati: 10 May 1910

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite
Wagner: Parsifal Prelude
Wagner: Lohengrin Act 3 Prelude
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Connersville: 11-12 May 1910

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite
Wagner: Parsifal Prelude
Wagner: Lohengrin Act 3 Prelude
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

The second season included even more contemporary composers. For some reason Mr. Hunt does not list soloists this season. It may be that they were first chair players of the orchestra. I will do what I can to find out, but if any reader can help, please let me know. Notice, also that the orchestra did not tour Ohio this season. Composers performed this season include several little known today. Hans Huber (1852-1921) was a Swiss composer. (See January) Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944) was born and died in Turin. He used Piedmontese folk music in his compositions. Giovani Sgambati (1841-1914) was born in Rome and died there. (See February) Bohlmann (1865-1926) was from Germany and at the time of this performance was a professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of music. So, Stokowski is promoting not only contemporary music, but local as well. Finally, this season the orchestra performed Elgar's "Dream of Gerontius" under the composer's baton. The fact that the composer, then famous, chose to go to Cincinnati is an indication of how respected Stokowski and his orchestra was already. Stokowski concludes the season with two choral works, Beethoven's 9^th and Verdi's Requiem.

Cincinnati: 26-27 November 1910

Beethoven: Symphony #7
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
Weber: Oberon Overture
Vocal items by Saint-Saens and Wagner

Cincinnati: 9-10 December 1910

Schumann: Symphony #2
Goldmark: Violin Concerto
Liszt: Tasso
Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture

Cincinnati: 16-17 December 1910

Strauss Program
Don Juan
Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils)
Feursnot (Love Scene)
Tod und Verklarung

1911

Cincinnati: 6-7 January 1911
Cincinnati Orchestra
All of his concerts the first three seasons were with the Cincinnati Orchestra.

Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila Overture
Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead
Rubinstein: Piano Concerto in D
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Cincinnati: 15 January 1911

Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance March #1
Weber: Aria from Der Freischutz
Tchaikovsky: Casse noisette Suite
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Wagner: Tannhauser Overture

Cincinnati: 20-21 January 1911

Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Beethoven: Symphony #8
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice

Cincinnati: 29 January 1911

Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Sibelius: Valse Triste
Chopin: Piano Concerto #1
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite
Huber: Serenata
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody (#?)
Wagner: Kaisermarsch

Cincinnati: 3-4 February 1911

Sgambati: Symphony in D
Sinigaglia: Le baruffe chiozotte Overture
Rossini: Barber of Seville Overture
Vocal items by Puccini and Verdi

Cincinnati: 12 February 1911

Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber Overture
Longfellow: King Robert of Sicily
Weber: Invitation to the Dance
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Cincinnati: 17-18 February 1911

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Mozart: Symphony #40
Bohlmann: Lyric Tone Poem
Scharwenka: Piano Concerto in F
Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Cincinnati: 26 February 1911

Meyerbeer: Coronation March
German: 3 Dances from Henry VIII
Saint-Saens: Bacchanale
Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude
Vocal items by Mozart and Bizet

Cincinnati: 3-4 March 1911

Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Cincinnati: 12 March 1911

Auber: Fra Diavolo Overture
Vieuxtemps: Ballade et Polonaise
Bizet: L'Arlsienne Suite
Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture
Brahms: 2 Hungarian Dances
Herbert: American Fantasy

Cincinnati: 17-18 March 1911

Wagner: Faust Overture
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony #1

Cincinnati: 31 March - 1 April 1911

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

Cincinnati: 19 April 1911
Soloists: Sheffield Philharmonic Choir

Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral"

Cincinnati: 20 April 1911
Soloists: Sheffield Philharmonic Choir

Verdi: Requiem

1911-1912: The final Cincinnati season included the US premiere of Elgar's Second Symphony. He also performed music of Stanford and Sullivan. You will also notice that on several occasions Stokowski conducted excerpts from symphonies and concertos rather than complete works. Seems odd to me. For some reason Mr. Hunt did not include the names of soloists. Little known composers: The first concert of the season featured Gustav Strube (1867-1953) German born but moved to America at age 23 and died there. First violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1900 and organized the Baltimore Symphony in 1916. Louis Saar (1868-1937) born in Holland, like Strube he moved to America and made his home there. He was head of the College of Music at the University of Cincinnati from 1906-1917. Hometown boy. Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1958) was a Finnish composer. See February. Paul Umlauft (1853-1934) was a German composer. See April.

Cincinnati: 17-18 November 1911

Brahms: Symphony #1
Strube: Puck, Comedy Overture
Wagner: Tannhauser Overture
Vocal items by Weber and Wagner

Cincinnati: 24-25 November 1911

Elgar: Symphony #2
Strauss: Dance of the 7 Veils
Strauss: Serenade for Winds
Strauss: Don Juan

Cincinnati: 8-9 December 1911

Tchaikovsky Program
Roméo & Juliet
Piano Concerto #1
Symphony #5

Cincinnati: 22-23 December 1911

Brahms: Academic Overture
Bruch: Violin Concerto
Schumann: Symphony #4

1912

Cincinnati: 5-6 January 1912

Franck: Symphony
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2
Berlioz: Damnation of Faust

Cincinnati: 19-20 January 1912

Beethoven: Symphony #2
Weber: Euryanthe Overture
Wagner: Entry of the Gods (Rheingold)

Cincinnati: 28 January 1912

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
Mozart: Aria from Don Giovanni
Schubert: Andante from Symphony #9 "The Great"
Delibes: Sylvia Suite
J. Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz

Cincinnati: 2-3 February 1912

Sibelius: Symphony #2
Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Cincinnati: 11 February 1912

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture
Saar: Gonoliera & Chanson d'amor
Liszt: Piano Concerto #2
Mozart: Minuet (Symphony #39)
Chopin: Nocturne and Polonaise
Wagner: Entry of the Guests

Cincinnati: 16-17 February 1912

Haydn: Symphony #104
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #1
Borodin: Steppes of Central Asia
Jarnefelt: Praeludium
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

Cincinnati: 25 February 1912

Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture
Bruch: Violin Concerto #2 (First movement)
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Mendelssohn: Adagio (Symphony #3)
Chabrier: Espana

Cincinnati: 1-2 March 1912

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony #3
Paganini: Violin Concerto #1
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz

Cincinnati: 10 March 1912

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture
Bizet: Carmen Suite #1
Beethoven: Andante (Symphony #1)
Handel: Aria from Acis and Galatea
Boccherini: Minuet
Michiels: Stryian Dance

Cincinnati: 15-16 March 1912

Stanford: Irish Symphony
Suite by English composers
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Sullivan: Di Ballo Overture

Cincinnati: 24 March 1912

Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
Offenbach: Tales of Joseph Hoffman excerpts
Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours
Haydn: Finale (Symphony #103)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (movements 2-3)
Brahms: 2 Hungarian Dances
Rossini: William Tell Overture

Cincinnati: 29-30 March 1912

Brahms: Symphony #2
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Wagner: Wotan's Farewell (Walkure)

Cincinnati: 7 April 1912

Tchaikovsky: Finale (Symphony #5)
Handel: Largo (Serse)
Bizet: Carmen Suite #2
Wunderle: Swedish Paraphrase
Umlauft: Mein Vaterland
Thomas: Mignon Overture
Vocal items by Mozart, Sullivan and Donizetti

Cincinnati: 12-13 April 1912

Goldmark: Sakuntala Overture
Wagner: Meistersinger excerpts
Beethoven: Symphony #5

As can be seen, some guest conducting in Stokowski's homeland preceded the first Philadelphia season. This portion of Mr. Hunt's register is primarily based on the work of Brian Plumb, Archivist of the Leopold Stokowski Society. They published the list in serial form in their journal, Toccata. The first Philadelphia season had many more concerts and much more music than the last two in Cincinnati. According to Hunt the season also included concerts in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Atlantic City, Camden, Detroit, Germanstown, Kensington and Wilmington but he doesn't provide detail regarding dates or contents. This season also features Thaddeus Rich, who performed numerous times as soloist. He was concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. One of the highlights of this first season is Stokowski's performance in February of a work by a woman composer, Celeste Heckscher (1860-1928) who was a Philadelphia native. This season Stokowski also includes a concert where the "new music" is almost entirely from local composers. No doubt he realized the necessity of getting allies in the beginning. (See below for details) Hermann Sandby (1881-1966) was a Danish cellist and composed an opera from which the prelude was played: December. Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909) was an Italian pianist and composer: January. Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897) was an Italian violinist and composer: March. William Townsend a Scottish pianist who lived from 1847-1925: Also March. Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) was a Swiss composer and student of Bruckner. He developed a method of "Gymnastique rhythmique" intended "to create by the help of rhythm a rapid and regular current of communication between brain and body and to make feeling for rhythm a physical experience." April. Also in April is the 'Philadelphia Composers Concert' (my appellation) Camille Zeckwer (1875-1924) was an American composer from the Philadelphia area. He studied composition with Dvorak when he was in New York. Henry Albert Lang (1854-1930) was another composer who lived in Philadelphia at the time. Wassili Leps (1870-1943) an American composer, he taught in Philadelphia at the time. Henry Philip Goepp (1864-1936) was an American composer who also taught in Philadelphia. Premieres: November sees the US premiere of Sir Henry Walford Davies' Parthenia Suite. Davies (1869-1941) is fairly well known. He was an English composer who started teaching at the RCM in 1895. Stokowski studied counterpoint with him.

London: 22 May 1912
London Symphony Orchestra

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
Brahms: Symphony #1
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Glazunov: Violin Concerto (Efrem Zimbalist, violin)
Tchaikovsky: March Slav

London: 14 June 1912
New Symphony Orchestra

Wagner Program
Tannhauser Overture
Ride of the Valkyries
Excerpts from Tristan & Gotterdammerung w. Lillian Nordica, soprano

Philadelphia: 11-12 October 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture
Brahms: Symphony #1
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches
Wagner: Tannhauser Overture

Philadelphia: 18-19 October 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Weber: Frieschutz Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #5
Strauss: Don Juan
Vocal items by Wagner sung by Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto

Philadelphia: 25-26 October 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Tchaikovsky Program
Symphony #5
Roméo and Juliet
Marche slave

Philadelphia: 1-2 November 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Schumann: Symphony #4
Bruch: Violin Concerto (Louis Persinger, violin)
Davies: Parthenia Suite
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March

Philadelphia: 8-9 November 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Sibelius: Symphony #2
Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Liszt: Les Preludes

Philadelphia: 15-16 November 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Haydn: Symphony #104
Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade
Vocal items by Mozart w- Marguerite Namara, soprano

Philadelphia: 20 November 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber Overture
Liszt: Piano Concerto #1
Delibes: Sylvia Suite
Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Vocal items by Bizet and Saint-Saens w. Rosenberg and Goldsmith

Philadelphia: 22-23 November 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Elgar: Symphony #1
Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude
Wagner: Kaisermarch

Philadelphia: 29-20 November 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Franck: Symphony
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 (Leopold Godowsky, piano)
Strube: Puck, Comedy Overture

Philadelphia: 4 December 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Auber: Fra Diavolo Overture
Paganini: Intro, theme & variations
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite #1
Saint-Saens: Danse macabre
Chabrier: Espana
Vocal items by Verdi and Puccini w. Harwood, Baugher and Such

Philadelphia: 6-7 December 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Sanby: Vikings at Hegeland, Act 4 Prelude
Beethoven: Symphony #1
Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Vocal items by Handel and Charpentier w. Hinkle

Philadelphia: 20-21 December 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great"
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3 (Mischa Elman, violin)
Berlioz: Damnation of Faust excerpts

Philadelphia: 27-26 December 1912
Philadelphia Orchestra

Wagner program
Meistersinger Overture & Act 3 Prelude
Tristan Liebesnacht
A Faust Overture
Siegfried Idyll
Flying Dutchman Overture

1913

Philadelphia: 3-4 January 1913
Philadelphia Orchestra

Goldmark: Sakantula Overture
Chopin: Piano Concerto #1 (Rudolph Ganz, piano)
Mozart: Symphony #39
Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead

Philadelphia: 10-11 January 1913
Philadelphia Orchestra

Mendelssohn: Symphony #3
Lalo: Violin Concerto (Thaddeus Rich, violin)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture

Philadelphia: 15 January 1913

Sullivan: Di Ballo Overture
Weber: Konzerstuck
Tchaikovsky: Casse noisette Suite
Brahms: 2 Hungarian Dances
Saint-Saens: Adagio and Variations
Reinecke: Lento
Enesco: Presto
Ponchielli: La Gioconda Ballet Suite

Philadelphia: 17-18 January 1913

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Bach: Suite #2
Martucci: Symphony #1
Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice

Philadelphia: 24-25 January 1913

Beethoven: Symphony #8
Loeffler: La vilanelle du diable
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Vocal items by Gluck, Marcello & Wolf w. Elena Gerhardt, soprano

Philadelphia: 29 January 1913

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Suite
Elgar: Salut d'amour
Boccherini: Minuet
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
Michiels: Czardas
Vocal duets by Verdi w- Green, Lipschutz, and Herman Hermann Sandby

Philadelphia: 31 January, 1 February 1913

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Liszt: Tasso
Enesco: Symphony

Philadelphia: 7-8 February 1913

Brahms: Symphony #3
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #2
Moszkowski: The Steppes

Springfield Mass. 18 February 1913

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
Liszt: Tasso
Jaques-Dalcroze: L'oiseau bleu
Sibelius: Valse triste
Jarnefelt: Praeludium
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave
Arias, duets and songs by Verdi, Rossini, Wolf, Strauss & Mozart w- Sembrich & Gilly

Philadelphia: 21-22 February 1913

Weber: Euryanthe Overture
Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"
Glière: Les sirens
Jarnefelt: Praeludium
Sibelius: Valse triste
Wagner: Huldigungmarsch

Philadelphia: 26 February 1913

Thomas: Mignon Overture
German: 3 Dances from Henry VIII
Heckscher: 5 Dances from the Pyrenees
Saint-Saens: Bacchanale
Meyerbeer: Coronation March
Vocal items by Massenet & Leoncavallo w- Hood & Horner

Philadelphia: 28 February, 1 March 1913

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto #3 (Eugène Ysaÿe, violin)
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (same)

Philadelphia: 7-8 March 1913

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite
Stanford: Symphony #3
Smetana: The Moldau
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Dvorak: Carnival Overture

Philadelphia: 12 March 1913

Rossini: William Tell Overture
Bizet: Aria from Carmen
Brahms: 2 Hungarian Dances
Townsend: Serenade
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite #1
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Suite
Mueller: Traume
Bazzini: Ronde des lutins (Thaddeus Rich, violin)
Wagner: Lohengrin Act 3 Prelude

Philadelphia: 14-15 March 1913

Schumann: Symphony #2
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (Herman Hermann Sandby, cello)
Strauss: Love Scene (Feuersnot)
Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils

Philadelphia: 21-22 March 1913

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"
Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 (Ernest Schelling, piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

Philadelphia: 28-29 March 1913

Wagner Program
Entrance of the Gods (Rheingold)
Ride of the Walkure (Walkure)
Wotan's Farewell (Walkure)
Forrest Murmurs (Siegfried)
Rhine Journey, Funeral March & Closing Scene (Gotterdammerung)

Reading, PA: 2 April 1913

Van Den Beemt: Introduction and Scene
Zeckwer: Allegro: (Camille Zeckwer, piano)
Lang: The Isle of the Blest
Leps: Nirvana (Helen MacNamee-Bentz, soprano
Mueller: Atlantis
Bawden: Ballade (Clarence Bawden, piano)
Pfitzner: Scherzo
Gerstley: Spanish Dance
Goepp: Festal March

Philadelphia: 4-5 April 1913

Beethoven: Symphony #5
Arensky: Tchaikovsky Variations
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Vocal items by Gluck & Bruneau w. Jeanne Gerville-Reache, contralto

Philadelphia: 11-12 April 1913

Goldmark: Sakantula Overture
Beethoven: Symphony #5
Liszt: Les Preludes
Sibelius: Valse triste
Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

The second season included several additional concerts in various cities, but Hunt does not provide details. Notice the caliber of the soloists. In April Ignance Paderewski was the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5. Paderewski (1860-1941) a Polish composer and pianist, was much better known then than now. Stokowski performed his symphony the following season. The symphony was completed in 1907 and "describes the tragic fate of the Polish nation". In 1918 he became the first Premier of the new Polish nation. I have considered that the ability to attract such musicians in Philadelphia might have had some influence on Stokowski's decision to leave Cincinnati. This was the first year Stokowski introduced a Concert for Youth (A Young People's Matinee this year). He realized that the future of classical music depended upon the cultivation of the young. He continues to use women musicians. Teresa Carreno (December) plays the piano in MacDowell's piano concerto. He was a student of hers. In April Catherine Goodson is the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto. Also that month Maud Powell plays the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Stokowski and the orchestra. Premieres: Stokowski opens the season with the US premiere of Siegmund von Hausegger's symphonic poem Wieland der Schmied. Hausegger (1872-1948) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Henri Rabaud (1873-1949) was a French composer and conductor. A student of Massenet he made his name with the colorful oriental opera Marouf, savetire du Caire. 24 October was the US premiere of his Symphony #2. In November Stokowski conducts the US premiere of Enrique Arbos' Guajiras. Arbos (1863-1939) was a Spanish composer. That concert also was the US premiere of Florent Schmitt's Rapsodie Viennoise. Schmitt (1870-1958) was a French composer who is marginally known today but Thompson comments that he has a "leading place among French composers." January 2 was the US premiere of Roussel's Evocation #2. 14 January: Jenõ Hubay (1858-1937) was a Hungarian composer whose compositions included four symphonies and four violin concertos. He taught Szigeti. In February Stokowski conducts the world premiere of Henry Lang's First Symphony.

Philadelphia: 17-18 October 1913

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica"
Hausegger: Wisland der Schmied
Liszt: Tasso

Philadelphia: 22 October 1913

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5
Bach: Air (Suite #3)
Sibelius: Valse triste
Liszt: Tasso

Philadelphia: 24-25 October 1913

Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture
Rabaud: Symphony #2
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Philadelphia: 31 October – 1 November 1913

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #3
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Schelling: Legende symphonique
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 5 November 1913

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto #4 (Irma Seydell, violin)
Bizet: Carmen Suite #1
Schubert: Marche militaire
Weber: Invitation to the Dance
Charpentier: Aria from Louise (Kerns)
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #1

Philadelphia: 7-8 November 1913

Beethoven: Prometheus Overture
Schumann: Genoveva Overture
Strauss: Ein Heldenleban
Vocal items by Bach, Gluck and Verdi w- Homer

Philadelphia: 14-15 November 1913

Pfitzner: Katchen von Heilbronn Overture
Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Philadelphia: 21-22 November 1913

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Brahms: Symphony #1
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Joseph Hoffman, piano)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture

Philadelphia: 26 November 1913

Goldmark: Sakantula Overture
Weber: Rondo alla polacca
Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar
Sibelius: Valse triste
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Vocal items by Weber and Wagner w- Harvard & Krauss

Philadelphia: 28-29 November 1913

Cherubini: Anacreon Overture
Bach: Violin Concerto #2
Franck: Symphony
Arbos: Guajiras
Schmitt: Rapsodie Viennoise

Philadelphia: 5-6 December 1913

Wagner Program
Lohengrin: Prelude & Procession to Minster
Tannhauser: Overture, Venusberg Music & Act 3 Prelude
Siegfried: Idyll
Tristan: Prelude, Act 3 Prelude and Liebestod

Philadelphia: 19-20 December 1913

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture
Beethoven: Symphony #2
MacDowell: Piano Concerto #2 (Teresa Carreno, piano)
Strauss: Tod und Verklarung

Philadelphia: 26-27 December 1913

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Mischa Elman, violin)
Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture

Philadelphia: 31 December 1913

Young People's Matinee
Arensky: Tchaikovsky Variations
Tchaikovsky: Christ Child Legend
Episodes in the life of a child (narrated by Kitty Cheathams)
J. Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz
Tchaikovsky: Casse noisette Suite

1914

Philadelphia: 2-3 January 1914

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture

Roussel: Evocation #2

Zeckwer: Piano Concerto (Camille Zeckwer, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Philadelphia: 9-10 January 1914

Beethoven: Marcia funebre (Symphony #3 "Eroica"

Hadley: Symphony #4

Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Vocal items by Mozart, Schubert and Brahms w- Connell

Philadelphia: 14 January 1914

Herold: Zampa Overture

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2 (Harold Morris, piano)

Massenet: Scenes napolitaines

Thomas: Gavotte from Mignon

Tchaikovsky: Serenade melancholique

Hubay: Azt Mondjak

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Philadelphia: 16-17 January 1914

Wagner Program

Parsifal: Transformation and Good Friday Music

Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods

Ride of the Walkure

Siegfried: Forest murmurs

Gotterdammerung: Funeral March and Immolation

New York: 21 January 1914

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture

Brahms: Symphony #1

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Vocal items by Mozart and Charpentier w- Alma Gluck

Philadelphia: 22-23 January 1914

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 (Harold, Bauer, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

Philadelphia: 30-31 January 1914

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Suite

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Schumann: Symphony #1

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

Philadelphia: 6-7 February 1914

Korngold: Schauspiel Overture

Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Thaddeus Rich, violin)

Beethoven: Symphony #7

Boston: 15 February 1914

Brahms: Symphony #1

Korngold: Schauspiel Overture

Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3 (Mischa Elman, violin)

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture and Venusberg Music

Philadelphia: 20-21 February 1914

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Wilhelm Backhaus, piano)

Brahms: Symphony #2

Mueller: Atlantis

Philadelphia: 27-28 February 1914

Gluck: Iphigene in Aulis Overture

Haydn: Symphony #100

Debussy: Nuages & Fetes (Nocturnes)

Liszt: Les Preludes
Vocal items by Monteverdi, Brahms & Schubert w- Julia Culp

Philadelphia: 6-7 March 1914

Weber: Euryanthe Overture

Lang: Symphony #1: Fantasies of a Poet

Boellman: Symphonic Variations (Herman Hermann Sandby, cello)

Strauss: Serenade for Wind

Strauss: Dance of the 7 Veils

Philadelphia: 13-14 March 1914

Beethoven Program

Leonore #3 Overture

Symphony #9 "Choral"

Florence Hinkle, Maria Stone-Langston, Nicholas Douty, Horatio Connell

Philadelphia: 18 March 1914

Thomas: Raymonda Overture

Mozart: Gavotte from Idomeneo

Wagner: Tannhauser: Entry of the Guests

German: 3 Dances from Henry VIII

Stein: Konzerstuck

Michiels: Czardas
Vocal items by Hadyn, Wagner, Heger and Othergraven s- Braun & Rahmig

Philadelphia: 20-21 March 1914

Schillings: Symphonic Prologue (Dedipus)

Schumann: Symphony #2

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Carl Flesch, violin)

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Philadelphia: 27-28 March 1914

Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor

Grieg: Piano Concerto (Catherine Goodson, piano)

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Philadelphia: 1 April 1914

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite

Wagner: Tristan Prelude and Liebestod

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Ignance Paderewski, piano)

Philadelphia: 3-4 April 1914

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Mozart: Symphony #40

Van Den Beemt: Intro & Shepherd Scene

Strauss: Don Juan
Vocal items by Mozart & Schubert w- Ernestine Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto

Philadelphia: 11-13 April 1914

Weber: Oberon Overture

Brahms: Symphony #4

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Maud Powell, violin)

Berlioz: Damnation of Faust excerpts

Philadelphia: 15 April 1914

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture

Weber: Invitation to the Dance

J. Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz

Goldmark: Sakantula Overture

Sibelius: Valse triste

Boellman: Symphonic Variations (James Liebling, cello)

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #1
Vocal items by Huberti and Poldowski w. Emilia Conti, soprano

Philadelphia: 17-18 April 1914

Request Program

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture and Venusberg Music

Liszt: Les Preludes

The third season features additional concerts in Akron, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Erie, Indianapolis, Oberlin, Reading, Washington, and Wilmington as well as the universities of Michigan and Princeton. John offers no dates or programs for these tours. It is another season with renowned soloists (Kreisler, Hofmann, and Casals to mention but a few.) There are several pieces from composers seldom heard today including Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony (12-13 March). . For your information she was one of Olga's students. In October Stokowski conducted Bruckner for one of only two times in his career at Philadelphia. . I find this odd since the Stokowski Sound seems so perfect for this composer. Premieres: March is the first Bach-Stokowski piece, Wachet auf, performed. Paul Hindemith's Nusch-Nuschi Tanze is given its US premiere in November. In February Stokowski gives the world premiere of Ferruccio Busoni's "Indian Fantasy" with the composer at the piano. Also in February Stokowski gives the world premiere of Ferruccio Busoni's "Indian Fantasy" with the composer at the piano. Busoni (1866-1924) was a German-Italian composer who first appeared at the age of 8 as a pianist. His styles included the "aesthetic of 'junge Klassizitat' by which he intended a return to the clarity and purely musical innovation of Bach and Mozart." He first appeared with Stokowski in Cincinnati as a pianist. I assume the Parsifal "Synthesis" is Stokowski's. WWI had started by this time. Stokowski adopted US citizenship around to avoid the draft into the English army. He was in his early 30s at this point. Later in life he was asked if he would like to revert so he could be knighted. He declined. Other composers rarely heard today include: Frederick Stock (February) was the conductor of the Chicago Symphony for 38 years.

Philadelphia: 16-17 October 1914

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Brahms: Symphony #2

Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Philadelphia: 23-24 October 1914

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture

Schubert: Rosamunde excerpts

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4
Vocal items by Mozart and Verdi w- Alma Gluck

Philadelphia: 30-31 October 1914

Bruckner: Symphony #4

Lalo: Violin Concerto (Frank Gittelson, violin)

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #1

Philadelphia: 6-7 November 1914

Schumann: Symphony #3

Bruch: Violin Concerto (Efrem Zimbalist, violin)

Efrem Zimbalist: 2 Russian Dances

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Philadelphia: 13-14 November 1914

Handel: Armininus Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #8

Saint-Saens: Rouet d'Omphale

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris
Vocal items by Bach and Meyerbeer w- Homer

Philadelphia: 20-21 November 1914

Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture

Mendelssohn: Symphony #4

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude

Philadelphia: 27-28 November 1914

Wagner Program

Parsifal: Prelude & Symphonic Synthesis

A Faust Overture

Siegfried: Idyll

Kaisermarsch

Philadelphia: 11-12 December 1914

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3

Brahms: Symphony #4

Weber: Oberon Overture

Philadelphia: 18-19 December 1914

Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great"

Berlioz: Roméo & Juliet excerpts

Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Vocal items by Bruch and Meyerbeer w- Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Philadelphia: 25-26 December 1914

Bach: Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio)

Bach: Concerto for piano, flute and violin

Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter"

Franck: Symphonic Variations

Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar

1915

Philadelphia: 1-2 January 1915

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor

Smetana: The Moldau

New York: 4 January 1915

Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

MacDowell: Dirge (Indian Suite)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 8-9 January 1915

Beethoven: Fidelio Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #4

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture
Vocal items by Goetz & Wagner w- Gerhardt

Philadelphia: 15-16 January 1915

Liszt: Tasso

Paderewski: Symphony in B minor

Philadelphia: 22-23 January 1915

Haydn: Symphony #94

Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 (Ossip Gabrilowitcsh, piano)

Weber: Konzertstuck

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

Philadelphia: 29-30 January 1915

Schumann: Manfred Symphony

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)

Beethoven: Symphony #5

Philadelphia: 5-8 February 1915

Stock: Symphony in C minor

Lalo: Cello Concerto (Herman Hermann Sandby, cello)

Chabrier: Espana

Philadelphia: 12-13 February 1915

Lully: Suite

Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 (Fannie Bloomfield-Ziesler, piano)

Kalinnikov: Symphony #1

Liszt: Hungarian Fantasia

Philadelphia: 19-20 February 1915

Sandby: The Woman & the Fiddler Suite

Brahms: Symphony #3

Busoni: Indian Fantasy (Ferruccio Busoni, piano)

Liszt-Busoni: Spanish Fantasy

Philadelphia: 26-27 February 1915

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 (Harold Randolf, piano)

Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony

Weber: Invitation to the Dance

Philadelphia: 12-13 March 1915

Amy Beach: Gaelic Symphony

Paganini: Violin Concerto #1 (Thaddeus Rich, violin)

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung

Philadelphia: 19-20 March 1915

Bach-Stokowski: Wachet auf

Wolf: Italian Serenade

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

[Vocal items by Mozart and Verdi w- Harrison]

Philadelphia: 26-27 March 1915

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

Schumann: Symphony #4

Rubinstein: Piano Concerto #3 (Joseph Hofman, piano)

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Philadelphia: 3-5 April 1915

Wagner Program

Rheingold: Entry of the Gods

Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries, Wotan's Farewell

Siegfried: Forest Murmurs

Gotterdammerung: Rhine Journey, Funeral March & Immolation

Philadelphia: 9-10 April 1915

Enesco: Rumanian Rhapsody #2

Dvorak: Cello Concerto (Pablo Casals, cello)

Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica"

Richmond: 12 April 1915

Liszt: Les Preludes

Verdi: Requiem

Emmy Destinn, Margaret Ober, Johannes Sembach, Emilio de Gogorza

Richmond: 13 April 1915 (afternoon concert0

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #5

Rubinstein: Piano Concerto #3 (Frances Larrabee, piano)

Weber: Invitation to the Dance
Vocal items by Gluck and Massenet

Richmond: 13 April 1915 (evening)

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Sibelius: Valse triste

Sibelius: Finlandia

Vocal solos and choruses be Wagner, Gounod, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Donizetti, and Handel w- Emily de Gogorza

Philadelphia: 16-17 April 1915

Tchaikovsky Request Program

1812 Overture

Casse noisette Suite

Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Of course the 1915-16 season is the Mahler 8^th Season. In addition there were other premieres. Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie is given its US premiere in November. Stokowski also leads the US premiere of Scriabin's Divine Poem that month. Daniel Mason (1873-1953) was an American composer who lived in New England. 18 February was the world premiere of his 1^st Symphony. Stokowski also programs the first US performance of Strauss' Alpine Symphony in April. For the first time Percy Grainger and Stokowski collaborate in the Grieg concerto. In December Stokowski conducts the Symphonic Variations of Ernest Schelling. Schelling (1876-1939) was an American pianist, composer and conductor. He was popular in his day and founded the New York Philharmonic's Children's' Concerts. He first appeared with Stokowski as a soloist in 1913. Additional concerts took place in Atlantic City, Baltimore, Bryn Mawr, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus Dayton, Detroit, Easton, New York, Oberlin, Wilmington and Ypsilanti as well as the University of Princeton and the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera. Visits to local schools and colleges replaced the Wednesday series of popular concerts. As usual no dates or repertoire are mentioned in Mr. Hunt's book

Philadelphia: 15-16 October 1915

Beethoven: Lenore #3 Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #7

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

Philadelphia: 22-23 October 1915

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor" (Joseph Hofmann, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 29-30 October 1915

Gluck: Iphigénie in Aulis Overture

Brahms: Symphony #2

Strauss: Don Juan
Vocal items by Mozart & Massenet w- Henri Scott, basso

Philadelphia: 5-6 November 1915

Schoenberg: Kammersinfonie

Goldmark: Violin Concerto (Mischa Elman, violin)

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

Philadelphia: 12-13 November 1915

Rousseau: Devin du village Overture

Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"

Grétry: Céphale et Procris

Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 (Ernest Hutcheson, piano)

Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches

Philadelphia: 19-20 November 1915

Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture

Scriabin: Divine Poem

Tchaikovsky: Roméo & Juliet
Vocal items by Gluck & Saint-Saens w- Sophie Breslau, contralto

Philadelphia: 26-27 November 1915

Wagner Program

Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods & Alberich's Curse

Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries & Wotan's Farewell

Siegfried: Forest Murmurs

Gotterdammerung: Rhine Journey, Funeral March & Immolation

Philadelphia: 10-11 December 1915

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral"

Schelling: Symphonic Variations (Ernest Schelling, piano)

Liszt: Les Preludes

Philadelphia: 17-18 December 1915

Bach: Suite #2

Haydn: Symphony #104

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice
Vocal items by Gluck & Berlioz w- Emilio de Gogorza, baritone

Philadelphia: 31 December 1915

Weber: Oberon Overture

Schumann: Symphony #1

Straube: Variations (conducted by the composer)

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris
Vocal items by Mozart & Wagner w- Lambert Murphey, tenor

1916

Philadelphia: 1 January 1916

Weber: Oberon Overture

Schumann: Symphony #1

Straube: Variations (conducted by the composer)

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris
Vocal items by Mozart & Wagner w- Lambert Murphey, tenor

Philadelphia: 7-8 January 1916

Schumann: Genoveva Overture

Chopin: Piano Concerto #1 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano)

Sibelius: Symphony #1

Philadelphia: 14-15 January 1916

Gluck: Alceste Overture

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Vocal items by Beethoven, Kreisler, Strauss & Schubert w- Julia Culp, contralto

Philadelphia: 21-22 January 1916

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Kathleen Parlow, violin)

Strauss: Ein Heldnleben

Philadelphia: 28-29 January 1916

Berlioz: Corsair Overture

Rabaud: Symphony #2

Grieg: Piano Concerto (Percy Grainger, piano)

Grainger: Molly on the Shore

Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance March

Philadelphia: 4-5 February 1916

Cherubini: Anacreon Overture

Sandby: Cello Concerto (Hermann Sandby, cello)

Zeckwer: Sohrab and Rustum

(conducted by the composer)

Mozart: Symphony #39

Sibelius: Finlandia

Philadelphia: 11-12 February 1916

Mendelssohn: Symphony #3

Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 (Harold Bauer, piano)

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Philadelphia: 18-19 February 1916

Beethoven: Prometheus Overture

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Albert Spalding, violin)

Mason: Symphony in C minor

Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch

Philadelphia: 25-26 February 1916

Schumann: Symphony #2

Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)

Liszt: Piano Concerto #2 (Yolanda Mero, piano)

Goldmark: Sakantula Overture

Philadelphia: 2-4 March 1916

Mahler: Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"

Florence Hinkle, Magna Barbourr, Una Fischer, (sopranos) Margaret Keyes, Mulier Dercum (contraltos) Lambert Murphey, tenor; Marianus Werrenrath, baritone; Pater Whitehill, bass

Philadelphia: 10-11 March 1916

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Brahms: Symphony #3

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Wassily Beserkirsky, violin)

Granados: Intermezzo & Epilogue (Goyescas)

Philadelphia: 17-18 March 1916

Wagner Program

Flying Dutchman Overture

Minster-Tannhauser Overture and Venusberg Music

Meistersinger: Overture & Act 3 Prelude

Siegfried: Idyll

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod

Philadelphia: 24 March 1916

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

Brahms: Double Concerto (Thaddeus Rich, violin & Hans Kindler, cello)

Franck: Symphony in D minor

Philadelphia: 25 March1916

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

Wieniawsky: Violin Concrto #2 (Thaddeus Rich, violin)

Franck: Symphony in D minor

Philadelphia: 27-29 March 1916

Mahler: Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"

[Soloists as per 2-4 March]

Philadelphia: 3-5 April 1916

Mahler: Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"

[Soloists as above]

Philadelphia: 7-8 April 1916

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #5

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Vocal items by Stradella & Strauss w- Marcella Craft, soprano

New York: 9 April 1916

Mahler: Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"

[Soloists as per original US premiere]

Philadelphia: 14-15 April 1916

Beethoven: Fidelio Overture

Brahms: Symphony #1

D'Indy: Istar

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Leopold Godowsky, piano)

Philadelphia: 28-29 April 1916

Strauss Program

Eine Alpensinfonie

Tod und Verklarung

The 1916-17 season is very busy, especially when you add in the road shows. Additional concerts take place in Albany, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Dayton, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Jamestown, Lebanon, Lima, Manchester NJ, Oberlin, Pittsburgh, Portland, Reading PA, Richmond, Springfield, Wilmington and Ypsilanti as well as Princeton. As usual there are no dates or repertoire. I can't help but wonder if the Don Giovanni (20-21 October) used Stokowski's ending. Another thing that occurs to me is how the programs of 80+ years ago are not so different from those today. Stokowski has two all-Wagner programs, the first in many he will schedule in following years. Sylvan Levin, who worked as orchestra pianist and associate conductor and I had the pleasure to meet, told me that Stokowski always wanted to conduct a Wagner opera. Premieres: In December Stokowski leads the world premiere of Max Bruch's concerto for two pianos. That month Stokowski also leads the US premiere of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. There were also non-premiere performances of music from sources barely known today. On December 5^th Stokowski programmed Leon Boellmann's Symphonic Poem. He was French composer and organist who lived from 1862-1897. In January Stokowski performs the music of Max Vogrich (1852-1916) born in Austria but traveled extensively and died in New York. On January 11, in New York, Stokowski performs a piece by Michel Dvorsky. This is, in fact, a pseudonym of Joseph Hofmann, the acclaimed pianist.

Philadelphia: 13-14 October 1916

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Brahms: Symphony #3

Reger: Hiller Variations

Sibelius: Finlandia

Philadelphia: 17 October 1916

School Concert

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Brahms: Symphony #3

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite

Sibelius: Finlandia
Vocal items by Verdi & Leoncavallo w-William Multer, baritone

Philadelphia: 20-21 October 1916

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #2

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave
Vocal items by Bruch and Wagner w- Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Philadelphia: 27-28 October 1916

Cherubini: Anacreon Overture

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Frank Gittelson, violin)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Philadelphia: 3-4 November 1916

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Beethoven: Allegretto (Symphony #7)

Schumann: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 6 November 1916

School Concert

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Liszt: Hungarian Fantasia (Letitia Radcliffe Miller, piano)

Wagner: Entry of the Gods (Rheingold)

Philadelphia: 9-10 November 1916

Wagner Program

Rheingold: Entry of the Gods & Alberich's Curse

Walkure: Ride of the Walkure & Wotan's Farewell

Siegfried: Rhine Journey

Gotterdammerung: Funeral March & Immolation Scene

Philadelphia: 17-18 November 1916

Haydn: Symphony #88

Arensky: Tchaikovsky Variations

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Vocal items by Mozart & Glinka w- Gluck

Philadelphia: 5 December 1916

School Concert

Wagner: Ride of the Walkures

Wagner: Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)

Wagner: Wotan's Farewell (Walkure)

Boellmann: Symphonic Poem

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave
Vocal items by Massenet, Charpentier & Puccini w- Farringdon-Smith, soprano & Hans Kindler, cello

Philadelphia: 8-9 December 1916

Weber: Euryanthe Oveture

Schumann: Symphony #3

Stock: Violin Concerto in D minor (Efrem Zimbalist, violin)

Oldberg: June

(Conducted by the composer)

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2

Philadelphia: 15-16 December 1916

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Strauss: Don Juan

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Tilly Koenen, contralto; Johannes Sembach, tenor)

Philadelphia: 22-23 December 1916

Wagner: Funeral March (Gotterdammerung)

Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano)

Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

Philadelphia: 29-30 December 1916

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #4

Bruch: Concerto for 2 Pianos (Rose & Ottilie Sutro, pianos)

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

1917

Philadelphia: 2 January 1917

School Concert

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Haydn: Minuet & Finale (Symphony #88)

Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3 (Madeleine McGuigan, violin)

Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Vocal items by Weber & Puccini w- Marie Zeckwer Holt, soprano

Philadelphia: 5-6 January 1917

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Vogrich: "E pur si muove" (Galilco 1633) Ho abiurato

Saint-Saens: Intro & Rondo Capriccioso (Soloist Mischa Elman, violin)

Scriabin: Divine Poem

New York: 11 January 1917

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Dvorsky: Chromaticon

Schelling: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)

Scriabin: Divine Poem (Joseph Hofmann, piano)

Philadelphia: 12-13 January 1917

Franck: Symphony in D minor

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #4 (Joseph Hofmann, piano)

Dvorsky: Chromaticon

Weber: Invitation to the Dance

Philadelphia: 19-20 January 1917

Beethoven: Prometheus Overture

Mozart: Symphony #40

Elgar: Enigma Variations
Vocal items by Handel, Mahler & Schubert w- Connell

Philadelphia: 26-27 January 1917

Rabaud: Symphony #2

Debussy: La demoiselle elue (Mabel Garrison, soprano)

Debussy: Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun

Philadelphia: 2-3 February 1917

Schumann: Manfred Overture

Mendelssohn: Symphony #4

Schelling: Impressions From an Artist's Life (Ernest Schelling, piano)

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung

Philadelphia: 9-10 February 1917

Gluck: Alceste Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #8

Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela

Liszt: Tasso
Vocal items by Mozart & Chadwick w- Reginald Werrenrath, baritone

Philadelphia: 23-24 February 1917

Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmila Overture

Borodin: Symphony #2

Glière: Les sirenes

Tchaikovsky: Intermezzo (Suite #1)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Philadelphia: 2-3 March 1917

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture

Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Theodore Spiering, violin)

Liszt: Faust Symphony (Lambert Murphy, tenor)

Philadelphia: 6 March 1917

School Concert

Mozart: Nozze di Figaro Overture

Mendelssohn: March (Symphony #4)

Lalo: Cello Concerto (Philip Abbas, cello)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Vocal items by Mozart and Wagner w- Elsa Meiskey, soprano

Philadelphia: 9-10 March 1917

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #3

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Brahms: Symphony #1

Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch

Other vocal items by Beethoven w- Elena Gerhardt, soprano

Philadelphia: 15-17 March 1917

Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite

D'Albert: Cello Concerto (Hans Kindler, cello)

Strauss: Ein Heldenleban

Philadelphia: 23-24 March 1917

Wagner Program

Flying Dutchman Overture

Lohengrin: Prelude

Tannhauser: Overture & Venusberg Music

Meistersinger: Overture & Act 3 Prelude

Siegfried: Idyll

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod

Philadelphia: 29-30 March 1917

Bach: Saint Matthew Passion

Philadelphia Chorus

Florence Hinkle, soprano; Margaret Keyes contralto; Morgan Kingston, tenor; Reinald Werrenrath, baritone; Herbert Witherspoon, bass

Philadelphia: 6-7 April 1917

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica"

Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto #4 (Thaddeus Rich, violin)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

Philadelphia: 13-14 April 1917

Lully: Suite

Bach: Piano Concerto in D minor (Harold Bauer, piano)

D'Indy: Symphony of a French Mountain Air

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Philadelphia: 18 April 1917

School Concert

Lully: Suite

Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 (Idette Feinman, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Casse noisette Suite

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Vocal items by Puccini & Bizet w- Elsa Lyons Cook, soprano

Philadelphia: 20-21 April 1917

Tchaikovsky Program

Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Casse noisette Suite

1812 Overture

Well, Stokowski starts off the 1917-18 season sans a single warhorse. In fact, they would all have been 'contemporary'. I assume you know who Foote is. The first concert of the season includes Philip Henry Goepp's Heroic March. Goepp (1864-1934) was an American composer and resident of Philadelphia at the time. That month Stokowski also programmed Rubin Goldmark's Samson. Goldmark (1872-1936) was an American composer and nephew of Karl. Edgar Kelley (1857-1944) was also from the US. Christian Sinding (1856-1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is fairly well known today: December. Selim Palmgren(1878-1951) was a Finnish composer: March. Note the Fur Elise on 9-10 November. I wonder if Stokowski wrote the orchestration. The duo-art piano is a player piano that works on a roll: 21 January. This season is also when the orchestra and Stokowski make their first recording for RCA, Brahms' Hungarian Dance #5.

Philadelphia: 12-13 October 1917

R. Goldmark: Samson

Kelley: New England Symphony

Foote: 4 Character Pieces

Goepp: Heroic March

Philadelphia: 19-20 October 1917

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Franck: Variations symphoniques

Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 (Karl Friedberg, piano)

Charpentier: Impressions italiens

Philadelphia: 25 October 1917

Mendelssohn: Symphony #5

Bach: Suite #2

Matthews: The City of God

(Conducted by the composer)

Philadelphia: 26-27 October 1917

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

Kalinnikov: Symphony #1

Scriabin: Poeme de l'extase

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Philadelphia: 2-3 November 1917

Cherubini: Anacreon Overture

Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"

Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu
Vocal items by Mozart and Wagner w. Margaret Matzenauer, soprano

Philadelphia: 9-10 November 1917

Beethoven Program

Coriolan Overture

Fur Elise

Symphony #2

Symphony #5

Philadelphia: 16-17 November 1917

Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber Overture

Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto #2 (Mischa Elman, violin)

Amani-Mischa Elman: Orientale

Chabrier: Espana

Philadelphia: 30 November & 1 December 1917

Haydn: Symphony #99

Bach: Concerto for 3 Pianos

Mozart: Concerto for 2 Pianos (Olga Samaroff, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianos)

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Philadelphia: 7-8 December 1917

Dvorak: In Nature's Realm Overture

Brahms: Symphony #4

Lalo: Violin Concerto (Jacques Thibaud, violin)

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Philadelphia: 14-15 December 1917

Tchaikovsky Program

Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Casse noisette Suite

1812 Overture

Philadelphia: 21-22 December 1917

Svendsen: Norwegian Rhapsody #2

Sinding: Symphony in D minor

Grieg: Symphonic Dance #2

Grieg: Aftenstemming (Lyric Suite)

Jarnefelt: Praeludium

Sibelius: Valse triste

Sibelius: En Saga

Philadelphia: 28-29 December 1917

Weber: Euryanthe Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 (Guiomar Novaes, piano)

Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great"

1918

Philadelphia: 4-5 January 1918

Mozart: Zauberflote Overture

Schumann: Symphony #1

Saint-Saens: Danse macabre

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture
Vocal items by Handel, Debussy, Duparc & Lalo w- Nicolas Douty, tenor

Philadelphia: 11-12 January 1918

Brahms: Symphony #2

Chausson: Poeme (Thaddeus Rich, violin)

Berlioz: Damnation of Faust Excerpts

Philadelphia: 18-19 January 1918

Bloch concert conducted by the composer.

Philadelphia: 21 January 1918

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2

(Duo-Art Piano)

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Philadelphia: 25-26 January 1918

Gluck: Alceste Overture

Mozart: Symphony #41

Liszt: Tasso
Vocal items by Gluck & Tchaikovsky w- Claussen

Philadelphia: 1-2 February 1918

Franck: Symphony in D minor

Rubinstein: Piano Concerto #4 (Joseph Hofmann, piano)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod

Philadelphia: 8-9 February 1918

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Max Rosen, violin)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Toronto: 18 February 1918

Concert for Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Toronto: 19 February 1918

Concert for Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Sibelius: Valse triste

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

Toronto: 20 February 1918

Concert for Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture

Philadelphia: 22-23 February 1918

Saint-Saens: Symphony #2

Grétry: Céphale et Procris

Debussy: Dances Sacred and Profane (Carlos Salzedo, harp)

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Philadelphia: 1-2 March 1918

Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture

Dorlay: Concert passione (Pablo Casals, cello)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Philadelphia: 8-9 March 1918

Brahms: Symphony #1

Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Vocal items by Mendelssohn & Liszt w- Olive Fremstad, soprano

Philadelphia: 15-16 March 1918

Tchaikovsky: Roméo & Juliet

Arensky: Tchaikovsky Variations

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

Scriabin: Poeme de l'extase

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Philadelphia: 22-23 March 1918

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

Wagner: Parsifal Good Friday Music

Bach: Suite #2

Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Efrem Zimbalist, violin)

New York: 27 March 1918

Bach: Suite #2

Mozart: Concerto for 2 Pianos

Lully: Suite

Bach: Concerto for 3 Pianos (Olga Samaroff, Harold Bauer & Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianos)

Philadelphia: 29-30 March 1918

Lully: Suite

Beethoven: Symphony #8

Palmgren: Piano Concerto #2 (Arthur Shattuck, piano)

Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)

Philadelphia: 6-7 April 1918

Mozart: Symphony #40

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Sasha Jacobinof, violin)

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris

Philadelphia: 13-14 April 1918

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Suite

Liszt: Les Preludes

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

1918-1919: Specific dates for many of the concerts are missing. Mr. Plumb explains that this is due to matters beyond his control. Premieres: March is the first US performance of Widor's Symphony #6. This was for organ and large orchestra. It was held in Wanamaker's Department Store. At its center was a large organ where daily performances took place. It was possible to clear the main floor and set up chairs for performances. In March Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra joined forces with the organist Charles Courboin for this premiere. This marks Stokowski's 10^th year as a conductor. His pattern is now clear. There is lots of contemporary music. Even Glazunov was still alive when Stokowski performed his 7^th Symphony. I wonder if by December 1918 Stokowski had fiddled with Beethoven's 7^th Symphony. Ilabrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) was an Italian composer who was really very prolific: April.

Philadelphia: ? October 1918

Elgar: Prelude & Farewell (Gerontius)

Elgar: Carillon

Elgar: Le drapeau belge

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: ? November 1918

Chabrier: Gwendoline Overture

Chausson: Poeme de l'amor et de la mer

Skilton: 2 Indian Dances

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Tchaikovsky group of songs w. Margaret Matzenauer, contralto

Baltimore: 11 November 1918

Chabrier: Gwendoline Overture

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Toscha Seidel, violin)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: ? November 1918

Concert to celebrate the end of The Great War included

MacDowell: Dirge (Indian Suite)

New York: 19 November 1918

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Tchaikovsky: Group of songs w. Margaret Matzenauer, contralto

Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris

Philadelphia: ? November 1918

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris

MacDowell: Indian Suite

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Toscha Seidel, violin)

Philadelphia: ? November 1918

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto (Hans Kindler, cello)

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Philadelphia: ? December 1918

Dvorsky: Haunted Castle

Liszt: Les Preludes

Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Emile Ferir, viola)

Philadelphia: ? December 1918

Saint-Saens: Rouet d'Omphale

Brahms: Symphony #3

Chabrier: Espana
Vocal items by Mozart & Duparc w- Marcia van Dresser, soprano

Philadelphia: ? December 1918

Beethoven Program

Egmont Overture

Piano Concerto #1 (Alfred Cortot, piano)

Symphony #7

New York: 17 December 1918

Brahms: Symphony #3

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Philadelphia: ? December 1918

Hadley: Lucifer Symphonic Poem

Lalo: Cello Concerto (Captain Fernano Pollain, cello)

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Philadelphia:? December 1918

Gluck: Alceste Overture

Berlioz: Damnation of Faust Suite

Mendelssohn: Symphony #3
Vocal items by Mozart & Debussy w- Magie Teyte, soprano

1919

Philadelphia: ? January 1919

Beethoven: Symphony #8

Mozart: Violin Concerto (#?)

Chausson: Poeme (Jacques Thibaud, violin)

Debussy: Three Nocturnes

Philadelphia: ? January 1919

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor" (Harold Bauer, piano)

Amy Beach: Symphony in E minor

New York: 21 January 1919

Beethoven: Symphony #8

Mozart: Violin Concerto #5 (Efrem Zimbalist, violin)

Debussy: 3 Nocturnes

Philadelphia: ? January 1919

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Scriabin: Poeme de l'extase

Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Philadelphia: ? February 1919

Stanford: Irish Symphony

Rachmaninoff: Air

Glière: Sirenes

Beethoven: Symphony #5

Philadelphia: ? February 1919

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
Vocal items by Carpenter, Converse, Clugh-Leighter & Forsythe w- Edwin Evans, bartione

New York: Beethoven: 11 February 1919

Lenore #3 Overture

Scriabin: Poeme de l'extase

Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Philadelphia: ? February 1919

Beethoven: Prometheus Overture

Mozart: Symphony #40

MacDowell: Piano Concerto in D minor (Leo Ornstein, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Ornstein, also played solos he had composed

Toronto: 21 February 1919

No program given.

Philadelphia: ? February 1919

Lully: Suite

Sibelius: Violin Concerto (ThaddeusRrich, violin)

Beethoven: Symphony #1

Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture

Philadelphia: ? March 1919

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Liszt: Piano Concerto #2 (Joseph Hofmann, piano)

Brahms: Symphony #2

New York: 11 March 1919

Bach: Concerto for flute, violin and piano (Andre Macquarre, flute; Jacques Thibaud,

violin; Harold Bauer, piano)

Mozart: Symphony #40

Chausson: Concerto for violin and piano (Jacques Thibaud, violin Harold Bauer, piano)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod

Philadelphia: ? March 1919

Lalo: Norwegian Rhapsody

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #1 (Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano)

Rabaud: Symphony #1

Philadelphia:? March 1919

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Efrem Zimbalist, violin)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique"

Philadelphia: ? March 1919

Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture

Bloch: Symphony #1

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Philadelphia: 27 March 1919

Concert in Wanamaker's Department Store

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod

Widor: Organ Symphony #6 (Charles Marie Courboin, organ)

Organ solos by Bach, Franck & Ravanello

Philadelphia: ? April 1919

Beethoven: Fidelio Overture

Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano)

Weber: Konzertstuck

Pizzetti: Fedra Prelude

Ysaye: Exile

Schumann: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 15-16 April 1919

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto (Andre Maquarre, flute; Carlos Salzedo, harp)

Glazunov: Symphony #7

Philadelphia: ? April 1919

Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter Overture

Garnier: Vision for Orchestra

Mussorgsky: Gopak

Franck: Symphony in D minor
Vocal items by Duparc, Franck & Georges w- Povla Frijsh, soprano

Philadelphia: 29 April 1919

French War Relief Concert

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite

Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3 (Jacques Thibaud, violin)

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Philadelphia: 2-3 May 1919

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

Schubert: Rosamunde excerpts

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture

The 1919-20 season includes more performances at Wanamakers. I don't recall any mention of Stokowski at the organ. Premieres: Four works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes are given world premieres in December. Griffes (1884-1920) was an American composer. His early works were in the German Romantic tradition but later he adopted a Debussyan style and then oriental culture. Stokowski led the US premiere of Rachmaninoff's "The Bells" in February. February is also the US premiere of Davies' A Solemn Melody. As mentioned earlier, Stokowski studied counterpoint with him. In March Stokowski leads the US premiere of Saint-Saens' March heroique. In the first concert Stokowski conducts the work of Edward Burlingame Hill (1872-1960) an American composer. The following concert Samuel Gardner's New Russia is another contemporary work performed that season. Gardner (1891-1984) was an American composer and violinist. Charles Skilton (1868-1941) was an American composer who studied American-Indian music: November. Gian Malipiero (1882-1973) is a name some will know. He was born and died in Italy: November. I wonder if Stokowski had altered Tchaikovsky's R&J by now, not to mention the ending of Mozart's Don. As can be seen the orchestra made several trips to New York this season. This season also saw the first solo performance of Tabuteau, one of the finest oboists ever

Philadelphia: 17-18 October 1919

Weber: Oberon Overture

Hill: Stevensoniania

Beethoven: Symphony #5

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Suite

Philadelphia: 24-25 October 1919

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite

Gardner: New Russia, tone poem

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Samuel Gardner, violin)

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Philadelphia: 31 October 1 November 1919

Tchaikovsky: Roméo & Juliet

Liszt: Piano Concerto #2 (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Mozart: Symphony #39

Beethoven: Choral Fantasy

Philadelphia: 7-8 November 1919

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #7

Dvorsky: Haunted Castle

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

New York: 11 November 1919

Same as 7-8 November.

Philadelphia: 14-15 November 1919

Beethoven: Prometheus Overture

Malipiero: 7 espressioni sinfoniche

Haydn: Symphony #88
Vocal items by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms & Wagner w. Margaret Matzenauer, soprano

Philadelphia: 28-29 November 1919

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Brahms: Double Concerto (Thaddeus Rich, violin & Hans Kindler, cello)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

New York: 2 December 1919

Program and soloists same as 28-29 November.

Philadelphia: 5-6 December 1919

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished"

Mozart: Piano Concerto #23 (Harold Bauer, piano)

Loeffler: Pagan Poem

Wagner: Hollander Overture

Philadelphia: 19-20 December 1919

Bach: Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio)

Griffes: Notturno, White Peacock, Clouds & Bacchanale

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2

Brahms: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 26-27 December 1919

Hadley: Othello Overture

Liszt: Piano Concerto #1(Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano)

Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral"

1920

Philadelphia: 2-3 January 1920

Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 (Alfed Cortot, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

New York: 6 January 1920

[Program the same as 2-3 January]

Philadelphia: 9-10 January 1920

Beethoven: Fidelio Overture

Schumann: Symphony #2

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)

Philadelphia: 23-24 January 1920

Gluck: Iphigénie in Aulis Overture

Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter"

Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral March
Vocal items by Bach and Mason w- Reinald Werrenrath, baritone

Philadelphia: 30-31 January 1920

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #8

Herbert: Natoma, Act 3 Prelude

Gilbert: Riders to the Sea

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Philadelphia: 6-7 February 1920

Rachmaninoff Program

Piano Concerto #3 (Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano)

The Bells

Florence Hinkle, soprano; Arthur Hackett, tenor; & Fred Patton, bass

New York: 10 February 1920

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Beethoven: Choral Fantasy (Olga Samaroff, piano)

Rachmaninoff: The Bells

Same soloists as 6-7 February

Philadelphia: 13-14 February 1920

Davies: Solemn Melody

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture & Venusberg
Vocal items by Chausson & Duparc w. Maggie Teyte, soprano

Toronto: 23 February 1920

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture & Venusberg

Choral works by Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Schindler, Taylor, Cornelius & Elgar

Toronto: 24 February 1920

Verdi: Requiem
Soloists not given. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Toronto: 25 February 1920

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

Liszt: Piano Concerto #2 (Olga Samarfoff, piano)

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

Toronto: 25 February 1920 (evening program)

Weber: Freischutz Overture

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Choral works by Elgar, Bossi, Bridge, Verdi and traditional w- Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Philadelphia: 27-28 February 1920

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Lorenziti: Concerto for viola 'amore & double bass (Thaddeus Rich, violin & Anton Torello, cello)

Weber: Oberon Overture

Philadelphia: 5-6 March 1920

Schubert: Rosamunde excerpts

Paganini: Violin Concerto #1 (Thelma Given, violin)

Brahms: Symphony #1

New York: 9 March 1920

Schubert: Rosamunde excerpts

Hadley: Symphony #1

(Conducted by the composer)

Brahms: Symphony #1

Philadelphia: 12-13 March 1920

Franck: Symphony in D minor

Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude

Wagner: Entry of the Gods (Rheingold)

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Liapounov: Piano Concerto in E Major (Katharine Goodson, piano)

Philadelphia: 24 March 1920

Concert in Wanamakers department store

Yon: Concerto gregoriano

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2

Wagner: Entry of the Gods (Rheingold)

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Saint-Saens: Largo (Organ Symphony)

Also organ works by Bach, Widor, Russell, Gigout, Franck & Saint-Saen (Pietro Yon & Charles Courboin, organ)

Philadelphia: 25 March 1920

Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture

Bach: Opening Chorus (Christmas Oratorio)

Schubert: Rosamunde excerpts

Parker: Ballad for chorus and orchestra

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Elgar: March and Choral Epilogue

Unaccompanied choral works by Dett, Gretchaninov, MacDowell & Lutin

Philadelphia: 26-27 March 1920

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Mozart: Symphony #40

Sachnovsaki: The Clock

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture
Vocal items by Gluck, Aubert & Rachmaninoff w. Emma Roberts

Philadelphia: 9-10 April 1920

Brahms: Symphony #2

Maquarre: Au clair de lune

Chanson d' amour

Weber: Bassoon Concertino (Richard Krueger, bassoon)

Berlioz: Damnation of Faust excerpts

Philadelphia: 16-17 April 1920

Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great"

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy (Eddy Brown, violin)

Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey

Philadelphia: 23-24 April 1920

Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #5 (Rudolph Ganz, piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

Philadelphia: 30 April 1 May 1920

Rossini: Barber of Seville Overture

Mozart: Oboe Concerto (Marcel Tabuteau, oboe)

Wagner: Forest murmurs (Siegfried)

Wagner: Wotan's Farewell (Valkyrie0
Vocal items by Rossini & Donizetti w. Estelle Hughes, soprano

Philadelphia: 7-8 May 1920

Beethoven Program

Leonore #3 Overture

Symphony #9 "Choral"

Vahrah Hanbury, soprano; Alice Fidler, contralto; Robert Quait, tenor & J. Campbell McInnes baritone

1920-21: The 19-20 November concert was a 20^th Anniversary program that replicated the orchestra's very first concert. Stokowski closes the season with the "Resurrection" Symphony of Mahler. Premieres: In November Stokowski leads the US premiere of Cyril Scott's Piano Concerto. Scott (1879-1970) was an English composer and poet. Some years ago there was an LP of his Early One Morning and it is a wonderful piece. Today I can find only one recording that includes him among others. Also in November is the world premiere of John Carpenter's "A Pilgrim Vision" is on the program. Carpenter (1876-1951) was an American composer. He is best known for his orchestral works such as Perambulator and the jazz ballet Krazy Kat. Other composers perhaps not so well known today include: Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) was an American composer won the Pulitzer Prize for Canticle of the Sun: October. Also in October Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) was a French composer. In December Stokowski performs a concerto for string quartet and orchestra. The composer's name is Moor. This is probably Emanuel Moor (1863-1931) born in Hungary and died in Switzerland. He was a pianist and conductor as well as a prolific composer of over 150 works. Roger Quilter was an English composer (1877-1953): April. Jacques Arcadelt was a French or Flemish composer (?1505-1568 or 70) about whom, as you can see, little is known: also April. On 11-12 February. William Wallace Gilchrist (1846-1916) was an American composer who lived in Philadelphia: May. Mengelberg appears as a guest conductor

Philadelphia: 15-16 October 1920

Sowerby: Comes Autumn Time Overture

Weber: Euryanthe Overture

Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture

Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica"

Philadelphia: 22-23 October 1920

Schubert: Symphony #9 "The Great"

Casella: Italia

Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela

Sibelius: Finlandia

New York: 26 October 1920

Program as same as for 22-23 October

Philadelphia: 29-30 October 1920

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Ropartz: Symphony #4
Vocal items by Chausson, Duparc, Debussy & Tchaikovsky w. Margaret Matzenauer, contralto

Philadelphia: 5-6 November 1920

Bach: Brandenburg 3, first movement

Brahms: Symphony #4

Scott: 2 Passacaglia for orchestra

(Conducted by the composer)

Scott: Piano Concerto in C (Cyril Scott, piano)

New York: 9 November 1920

Program the same as 5-6 November

Philadelphia: 19-20 November 1920

Goldmark: In Spring Overture

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 (Robert Schmitz, piano)

Beethoven: Symphony #5

Weber: Invitation to the Waltz

Wagner: Entry of the Gods (Rheingold)

Philadelphia: 26-27 November 1920

Dvorak: Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Carpenter: A Pilgrim Vision

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture & Venusberg

New York: 30 November 1920

Same as 26-27 except that Carpenter's music was omitted.

Philadelphia: 3-4 December 1920

Beethoven Program

Leonore #3 Overture

Symphony #9 "Choral"

Della Baker, soprano; Ellen Rumsey, contralto; Lambert Murphy, tenor & Royal Dadman, baritone

Philadelphia: 17-18 December 1920

Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter"

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung

Brahms: Double Concerto (Thaddeus Rich, violin & Micel Penha, cello)

New York: 21 December 1920

Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter"

Moor: Concerto for quartet & orchestra (Flonzaley String Quartet)

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung

Philadelphia: 31 December 1 January 1920-21

Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral"

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

Debussy: Nuages et fetes (Nocturnes)

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2

1921

New York: 4 January 1921

Program the same as above

New York: 5 January 1921

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2 (Guiomar Novaes, piano)

Wagner: Rienzi Overture

Philadelphia: 7-8 January 1921

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Fritz Kreisler, violin)