The first four weeks of the ninety-third season of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society concerts will be conducted by Otto Klemperer, who is scheduled to arrive September 28 on the liner Aquitania. The opening program, on October 4, will introduce to an American audience Paul Hindemith’s latest work, his “Mathis der Maler” symphony.
Bruno Walter, fresh from Salzburg, Vienna and Amsterdam, will return for his fourth consecutive winter in December. He is scheduled to direct for six weeks from December 3 through January 13. He will give three special Sunday afternoon Wagner concerts, with such eminent soloists as Gertrude Kappel, Lotte Lehmann, Paul Althouse, Marek Windheim, Friedrich Schorr and Emanuel Lizst.
In addition Walter is planning to do Gluck’s opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” in concert form, with Maria Olszewska already engaged for the role of Orpheus.
LANGE FOLLOWS KLEMPERER
After Klemperer’s final concert, on October 28, Hans Lange will take up the baton for one week. From November 5 through November 18 Werner Janssen, the young American conductor, will be seen on the podium, to be succeeded for two weeks by Artur Rodzinski, the Cleveland Orchestra conductor.
Following Walter’s period a second week is scheduled for Lange. After that Arturo Toscanini will begin his tenth year with the Philharmonic-Symphony on January 24. He will conduct ten weeks in all, spread over the remainder of the season, which lasts through April 28.
Toscanini will present two major choral works with the assistance of the Schola Cantorum—the Brahms Requiem and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
Instrumental soloists for the season will include Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Beverley Webster, pianists; Jascha Heifetz, Bronislaw Huberman and Mishel Piastro, violinists; and Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky and Alfred Wallenstein, violincellists.
Additional vocal soloists will be Richard Crooks, Ezio Pinza and Marion Telva.
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