1943 Dec 06 / Student Concert / Beckett

ID:: 10665

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Orchestras

Members of NY Philharmonic

Conductors

Beckett, Wheeler

Soloists

"S" = Soloist
"A" = Assisting Artist

Templeton, Alec / Piano / S

Works

Weber / Oberon
- Overture
Schubert / Symphony in B minor, D.759, Unfinished
Dvorak / Slavonic Dances (Unspecified)
- Slavonic Dance in C major
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Weber / Oberon
- Overture
Schubert / Symphony in B minor, D.759, Unfinished
Dvorak / Slavonic Dances (Unspecified)
- Slavonic Dance in C major
Debussy / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
Albeniz [Albéniz] / Excerpts for Orchestra, from Iberia (Fernandez Arbos, Enrique)
- Triana
Gershwin / Rhapsody in Blue, for Piano and Orchestra
Improvisation / Improvisation
Wagner / Lohengrin, Op. 75
- Act III: Introduction
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Dates / Event Types / Venues

Dec 6, 1943 / 3:30PM / Student Concert / Hunter College / Manhattan, NY

Notes

Program content taken from the NY Times review (no program available); Mr. Beckett also gave explanatory talks on the program. Alec Templeton improvised on the theme of C-C-pause-A-D in honor of the new City Center of Music, as requested by Mayor La Guardia (location within the concert program order unknown).

First of Six Concerts (see other dates: Jan. 24, Feb. 28, Mar. 13, Apr. 17 (no review/info avail.), May 1)
"The William T. Morris Foundation Announces the 1943-44 Season of Monday Afternoon Symphony Series: Six Concerts by 70 Members of the New York Philhamornic-Symphony For High School Students"

Project Funder

Leon Levy Foundation

Preferred Citation

Concert program, 6 Dec 1943, Program ID 10665, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/d869dfde-0a87-4f66-9632-6cec007155c4-0.1

1943 Dec 06 / Student Concert / Beckett

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