Don Cossack Chorus Dorothy Maynor, soprano (Arpad Sandor, piano) Marian Anderson, contralto (Franz Rupp, piano)
Angna Enters, mime
("An exhibit of Angna Enters' paintings & watercolors...at Grace Horne Galleries, Nov. 11-29")
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano Trapp Family Singers Kirsten Flagstad, soprano Rudolf Serkin, piano Mischa Elman, violin (Leopold Mittman, piano) Fritz Kreisler, violin
Philadelphia Opera Company, Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
Philadelphia Opera Company, Gounod, Faust
Philadelphia Opera Company, Debussy, Pelleas and Melisande
Philadelphia Opera Company, Strauss, The Bat (Die Fledermaus)
Philadelphia Opera Company, Strauss, The Rose Cavalier (Der Rosenkavalier)
(Frances Greer, Robert Gay, Joseph Luts, William Hess, Rose Nadel) Helen Traubel, soprano
(assisted by Dean Bedetti, cello, Conrad V. Bos and Leonard Bernstein, pianists) Lauritz Melchior, tenor Budapest String Quartet Yehudi Menuhin, violin (Adolph Baller, piano) [PROGRAM] Artur Rubinstein, piano
Norma Farber, soprano
Halmar Grabeau, piano
Bernard Weiser, piano (Boston debut) Carmen Amaya, flamenco dance Ballet Theatre
1942-1943 Season
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Don Cossack Chorus, Serge Jaroff, conductor)
Polyna Stoska, soprano (Edwin MacArthur, piano) Fritz Kreisler, violin (Carl Lamson, piano)) Richard Crooks, tenor & Richard Burgin, violin (Frederick Schauwecker, Leo Litwin, pianists) Marian Anderson, contralto (Franz Rupp, piano) Efrem Zimbalist, violin (Vladimir Sokoloff, piano)
Pierre Luboshutz & Genia Nemenoff, piano duo Arthur Schnabel, piano [PROGRAM] Jascha Heifetz, violin (Emanuel Bay, piano) Trapp Family Singers (2 performances, Jordan Hall in Nov. and Copley Plaza Ballroom in March) Eve Curie, author ("Theatres of War - India, China, Russia") Lotte Lehmann, soprano Ruth Draper, dramatist/comedienne ("in her inimitable character sketches")
Burton Holmes, travel writer & lecturer (5 performances) Louis Kaufman, violin Cornelia Otis Skinner, monologuist (at Copley Plaza Ballroom)
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Pierre Luboshutz & Genia Nemenoff, piano duo Maggie Teyte, soprano
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Don Cossack Chorus Fritz Kreisler, violin (Carl Lamson, piano)
Alec Templeton, piano Lily Pons, soprano (Frank LaForge, composer-pianist)
Adolf Busch, violin & Rudolf Serkin, piano
The Icelandic Singers, Sigurdur Thordarson, director (chorus) Marian Anderson, contralto Jan Peerce, tenor
Griller String Quartet Ezio Pinza, bass Artur Rubinstein, piano Jascha Heifetz, violin San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux, conductor
(Boston premiere of Messiaen's The Ascension, Four Symphonic Meditations)
Father Flanagan's Boys' Town Choir
Paul Draper, dance & Larry Adler, harmonica (John Colman, piano) Martial Singher, baritone
Alexander Uninsky, piano Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Ruth Posselt, violin (David Allen, piano) Trapp Family Singers Pearl Primus Dance Company Miriam Winslow, dancer (Willem Frank, piano, Muriel Watson, percussion)
Miklos Schwalb, piano
Emanuel Zambelli, piano
Stell Andersen, piano
Nancy Loring, mezzo-contralto (Felix Wolfes, piano)
New England Opera Theater, Boris Goldovsky, Artistic Director, (Puccini, The Cloak; Menotti, Old Maid and the Thief; Puccini, La Boheme)
Claudio Arrau, piano
de Paur's Infantry Chorus
Loewenguth Quartet with Reginald Kell, clarinet Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor (2 perfs; 1st US Tour) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Izler Solomon, conductor (1 perf; 1st US Tour)
New England Opera Theater, Boris Goldovsky, Artistic Dir., (Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin) Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Iva Kitchell Jan Peerce, tenor
Griller String Quartet Trapp Family Singers Mischa Elman, violin (Wolfgang Rose, piano) Isaac Stern, violin (Alexander Zakin, piano) Robert Shaw Chorale Artur Rubinstein, piano Jascha Heifetz, violin (Emanuel Bay, piano) Marian Anderson, contralto (Franz Rupp, piano) Lily Pons, soprano (Frank LaForge, composer-pianist; Frank Versaci, flute) Witold Malcuzynski, piano Solomon, piano Adele Addison, soprano (Robert Ewing, piano)
Julian Olevsky, violin (Boston debut)
Jacques Abram, piano (Boston debut)
Elena Nikolaidi, contralto
Wanda Paul, piano (Boston debut)
Kurt Baum, tenor
First Piano Quartet Dorothy Maynor, soprano
Nicole Henriot, piano Todd Duncan, baritone (originated role of Porgy in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess)
Charles Castleman, violin ("violin prodigy," Gladys Posselt Ondricek, piano)
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (week-long engagement) Sadler's Wells Ballet
(Boston debut; January 8-13, 1951; cast incl. Margot Fonteyn, Beryl Grey; week-long engagement: The Sleeping Beauty - 3 perfs, Les Patineurs - 2 perfs, The Rakes Progress, Dante Sonata - 2 perfs, Giselle, Facade, Checkmate, Le Lac des Cygnes)