Jose Iturbi will make his debut at the Stadium in the double role of concert pianist and conductor this evening, when he will lead the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in the Third (Eroica) Symphony of Beethoven and will play the Beethoven “Emperor” piano concerto. This concerto is his own choice, insisted upon over the Stadium management’s desire that he perform instead a less trying concerto by Liszt.
Monday evening Willem van Hoogstraten conducts the Philharmonic in a more varied program, including Tschaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, Beethoven’s Coriolanus Overture, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, “Symphonic Ballade,” by Pinsleur, and a Mozart Gavotte. The Pinsleur work is given for the first time.
On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings the Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, with Alice Kurkjian, soprano, and Alfredo Gondolfi, baritone, will subordinate the orchestra proper (under the direction of Hans Lange) in a program of operatic numbers from a variety of opera favorites including The Bartered Bride, Faust, II Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, Carmen, Norma and Boris Guodonoff.
For the first time at the Stadium on Thursday evening will be heard Arcady Dubensky’s “Fugue for Violins in Nine Parts,” and Boris Levenson’s “Two Hebrew Folk Tunes” and “A Night in Bagdad.” Mr. Dubensky is one of the second violins in the Philharmonic.
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