Los Angeles Music Festival Concerts, by Composer

The main table is ordered chronologically. The table below includes the same information (programs for all concerts of the Los Angeles Music Festival series (1947 to 1966) but is sorted by composer name.

In the headings, "#" indicates placement in the concert program for that day. "Notes" include soloists for concertos and some major vocal works. Titles of compositions are given as they appear in the program, with the exception of a few minor changes to aid sorting.

The conductor for all ensemble performances is Waxman unless another person is named in the "Notes" column.

Abbreviations:

WP = World Premiere

AP = American Premiere

WCP = West Coast Premiere

RWC = Roger Wagner Chorale

BHHS = Beverly Hills High School

BHMF = Beverly Hills Music Festival

Royce = Royce Hall, UCLA

Schoenberg = Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Chamber = Chamber Music Hall, UCLA

Date	Venue	#	Composer	Composition	Notes
6/4/60	Royce	1	--	"The Littlest Circus"	Host Carlton Carpenter
6/4/48	Royce	2	Bach	Cantata "Wir danken dir, Gott" -- Sinfonia	BHMF
6/16/49	Royce	?	Bach	Concerto in C Major for 2 harpsichords	LA Music Festival -- S. Stravinsky & Alice Ehlers. Repeated 6/20/49 at Pasadena Civic Auditorium
4/28/50	Royce	2	Bach	Piano Concerto No. 2	W. Kapell
5/25/52	All Saints Episcopal	1	Bach	St. John Passion	Donald Gramm, Majewski, Thomas, RWC
6/9/53	Royce	3	Bach	Concerto in E Major	Louis Kaufman
6/9/58	Schoenberg	4	Bach	Cantata no. 53: 'Schlage doch gewuenschte Stunde'	Eva Gustafson; Paganini Quartet; Waxman, Harpsichord
6/15/59	Royce	1	Bach	Suite no. 3 in D Major	Cond. Craft
6/5/61	Royce	1	Bach	Two Chorale Preludes; arr. Schoenberg	Cond. Craft?
5/15/64	Royce	2	Bach	Chaconne	Fuchs recital
5/17/64	Royce	1	Bach	Overture in the French Manner	Lowenthal recital -- First time in LA
5/16/65	Royce	1	Bach	Suite No. 2 in B Minor Flute & strings	Louise Di Tullio, soloist
6/17/57	Royce	5	Bach, arr. Stravinsky	Chorale and Canonic Variations on 'Von Himmel hoch'	Cond. Stravinsky
6/4/62	Royce	3	Badings	Concerto for Two Violins	Anshel Brusilov & David Madison; Philadelphia Orch cond. Ormandy
6/5/51	Royce	?	Barber	Adagio for Strings
6/9/58	Schoenberg	2	Barber	Dover Beach	Allen Gildersleeve; Paganini Quartet
6/11/59	Schoenberg	1	BartÛk	Contrasts	"Jazz in chamber music"
5/17/64	Royce	3	BartÛk	Out of Doors	Lowenthal recital
5/9/47	BHHS	3	Beethoven	Coriolanus Overture	BHMF
6/16/53	Royce	1	Beethoven	Coriolan overture
6/7/57	Royce	1	Beethoven	Coriolanus Overture
6/7/57	Royce	2	Beethoven	Symphony No. 9	Lee, Robinson, Ledger Glendale Choir
6/13/60	Royce	--	Beethoven	Leonore Overture No. 3	Deleted from program
5/4/65	Royce	1	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 1	Rudolf Serkin; "Beethoven Cycle I"
5/4/65	Royce	3	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 4	Rudolf Serkin; "Beethoven Cycle I"
5/6/65	Royce	2	Beethoven	Piano Concerto no. 3	Rudolf Serkin; Cond. Max Loy; "Beethoven Cycle II"
5/8/65	Royce	1	Beethoven	Piano Concerto no. 2	Rudolf Serkin; "Beethoven Cycle III"
5/8/65	Royce	3	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 5	Rudolf Serkin; "Beethoven Cycle III"
6/11/59	Schoenberg	5	Bennett, Robert Russell	Hexapoda (Five Studies in Jitteroptera)	"Jazz in chamber music"
6/7/53	Royce	1	Berezowsky	Babar the Elephant	Two matinee performances
6/7/58	Royce	1	Berezowsky	Babar the Elephant	Staged by Reese, chor. Trudi Schoop. 2 performances
6/5/53	Royce	3	Berezowsky, Nicolai	Babar the Elephant	Dir: Henry Reese, West Coast Premiere
6/7/60	Royce	2	Berg	Chamber Concerto	Cond. Craft
5/5/66	Royce	3	Berg	Five Orchestral Songs on texts by Peter Altenberg	Cond. Craft Karen Armstrong, sol.
6/11/56	Royce	[4]	Berger, Theodor	Concerto Manuale	Deleted from the program
5/16/65	Royce	5	Berlioz	Symphonie Triomphale et FunËbre, Op. 15	Paul Tanner, soloist -- WCP ≥original version≤
6/5/51	Royce	3	Bernstein	Symphony No. 2 "Age of Anxiety"	Andre Previn - WCP
6/9/61	Royce	2	Bernstein	"Improvisations on Themes from Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story'"	Andre Previn, Shelley Manne, Red Mitchell
6/9/61	Royce	3	Blomdahl	Symphony No. 3 "Facets"	Cond. Blomdahl -- West Coast Premiere
6/9/53	Royce	4	Bonporti	Concerto in D Major, op. 11, no.4	Louis Kaufman
5/16/47	BHHS	3	Brahms	Wie bist du, meine Koenigen	BHMF
5/9/47	BHHS	2	Brahms	Violin Concerto	BHMF -- Szigeti
5/23/47	BHHS	1	Brahms	Symphony No. 2	BHMF
6/6/55	Royce	2	Brahms	Symphony No. 1
6/11/56	Royce	1	Brahms	Academic Festival Overture
10/7/60	Catalina Casino	2	Brahms	Symphony No. 2 in D
6/9/63	Royce	4	Brahms	"Quartets for solo voices and piano" -- 7 works from op. 31 to op. 112	Gregg Smith Singers; cond. Smith
5/21/66	Royce	1	Brahms	Tragic Overture
5/21/66	Royce	2	Brahms	Symphony No. 1
6/3/54	Royce	3	Britten