Concerts of the Los Angeles Music Festival, 1947-1966
(including 1960 Santa Catalina Festival of the Arts)

 

Table 1: Chronological listing

 

The table below provides the programs for all concerts of the Festival series, from 1947 to 1966. 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

5/16/47

BHHS

1

Mozart

Marriage of Figaro -- Overture

BHMF

5/16/47

BHHS

2

Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 4

BHMF

5/16/47

BHHS

3

Brahms

Wie bist du, meine Koenigen

BHMF

5/16/47

BHHS

4

Schubert

Die junge Nonne

BHMF

5/16/47

BHHS

5

Strauss, R.

Morgen

BHMF -- Lotte Lehman -- last concert performance

5/16/47

BHHS

6

Strauss, R.

Metamorphosis

BHMF -- First Performance in Southern California

5/16/47

BHHS

7

Strauss, R.

Rosenkavalier, Der -- Act 1 excerpt

BHMF -- Lotte Lehman

5/9/47

BHHS

1

Prokofiev

Symphony No. 5

BHMF -- First performance in Southern California

5/9/47

BHHS

2

Brahms

Violin Concerto

BHMF -- Szigeti

5/9/47

BHHS

3

Beethoven

Coriolanus Overture

BHMF

5/23/47

BHHS

1

Brahms

Symphony No. 2

BHMF

5/23/47

BHHS

2

Mendelssohn

Piano Concerto No. 2

BHMF -- Dorfmann

5/23/47

BHHS

3

Walton

Spitfire Fugue (from the film "The First of the Few")

BHMF - WCP

5/23/47

BHHS

4

Khatchaturian

Gayne Ballet Suite

BHMF

6/4/48

Royce

1

Schumann

Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54

BHMF -- Pressler

6/4/48

Royce

2

Bach

Cantata "Wir danken dir, Gott" -- Sinfonia

BHMF

6/4/48

Royce

3

Mozart

Symphony No 40

BHMF

6/4/48

Royce

4

De Falla

El Amor Brujo ÒLove, the MagicianÓ

BHMF

6/4/48

Royce

5

Waxman

Elegy for Strings -- in memoriam Leo Forbstein

BHMF; WCP

 

6/11/48

Royce

1

Honegger

Joan of Arc at the Stake

 

 

BHMF -- Zorina, Wanamaker, Nixon.

American Premiere in English; Repeated at Hollywood Bowl 6/12/48

6/9/49

Royce

1

Mozart

Marriage of Figaro

LA Music Festival -- cond. Richard Lert

6/16/49

Royce

?

Stravinsky

L'Histoire du Soldat

 

 

LA Music Festival -- Stravinsky conducting. West Coast Premiere.

Directed by Henry Schnitzler & Harry Horner. Repeated 6/20/49 at Pasadena Civic Auditorium

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

4/14/50

Royce

1

Mozart

Symphony No. 39

 

4/14/50

Royce

2

Schubert

Mass in Eb Major

Cond. Roger Wagner

4/21/50

Royce

1

Smetana

Bartered Bride, The

Cond. Jan Popper

4/28/50

Royce

1

Mahler

Symphony No. 9

West Coast Premiere

4/28/50

Royce

2

Bach

Piano Concerto No. 2

W. Kapell

5/29/51

Royce

1

Verdi

La Traviata, -- Prelude to Act III

 

5/29/51

Royce

2

Verdi

La Forza del Destino "Madre, pietosa vergine"

Herva Nelli sub. for Stella Roman

5/29/51

Royce

3

Verdi

Requiem

 

6/5/51

Royce

1

Prokofiev

Classical Symphony

 

6/5/51

Royce

2

Steinert

Symphonic poem after Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose"

West Coast Premiere

6/5/51

Royce

3

Bernstein

Symphony No. 2 "Age of Anxiety"

Andre Previn - WCP

6/5/51

Royce

?

Barber

Adagio for Strings

 

6/10-15/51

Hollywood Bowl

1

Strauss, J., jr.

Fledermaus, Die

 

6/12/51

Royce

1

Honegger

Prelude, Arioso, and Fughette on the name of B.A.C.H.

West Coast Premiere

6/12/51

Royce

2

Mahler

Symphony No. 3

West Coast Premiere

5/18/52

Wilshire Blvd. Temple

1

Honegger

King David

Narr. Richard Hale, RWC.

West Coast Premiere

5/25/52

All Saints Episcopal

1

Bach

St. John Passion

Donald Gramm, Majewski, Thomas,

RWC

6/3/52

Royce

1

Weber

Overture to Oberon

 

6/3/52

Royce

2

Sibelius

Concerto for Violin

Isaac Stern

6/3/52

Royce

3

Honegger

Symphony No. 5 (Di Tre Re)

West Coast Premiere

6/3/52

Royce

4

Waxman

"Carmen" Fantasie

Stern -- West Coast Premiere

6/5/53

Royce

1

Mozart

Musical Joke, A

"Village Musicians Sextet, K. 522"

6/5/53

Royce

2

Haydn

Toy Symphony

 

6/5/53

Royce

3

Berezowsky, Nicolai

Babar the Elephant

Dir: Henry Reese, West Coast Premiere

6/7/53

Royce

1

Berezowsky

Babar the Elephant

Two matinee performances

6/9/53

Royce

1

Telemann

Concerto in A Minor

Louis Kaufman. NB: one ad lists Vivaldi op. 3 as the program for 6/9/53

6/9/53

Royce

2

Torelli

Concerto in E Minor, Op. 7, no.9

Louis Kaufman

6/9/53

Royce

3

Bach

Concerto in E Major

Louis Kaufman

6/9/53

Royce

4

Bonporti

Concerto in D Major, op. 11, no.4

Louis Kaufman

6/9/53

Royce

5

Vivaldi

Concerto in D Major, op. 8, no.11

Louis Kaufman

6/9/53

Royce

6

Vivaldi

Concerto in Eb Major

Louis Kaufman

6/16/53

Royce

1

Beethoven

Coriolan overture

 

6/16/53

Royce

2

Foss

Piano Concerto No. 2, rev.

Foss -- WCP

6/16/53

Royce

3

Prokofiev

Symphony no. 7, Op. 131

West Coast Premiere

6/1/54

Royce

1

Enters, Angna

"Theatre of Angna Enters"

Several works in mime

6/3/54

Royce

1

Wiren, Dag

Serenade

Cond. Boyd Neel.

West Coast Premiere

6/3/54

Royce

2

Mozart

Divertimento in D, K. 136

Cond. Boyd Neel

6/3/54

Royce

3

Britten

Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge

Cond. Boyd Neel.

West Coast Premiere

6/3/54

Royce

4

Dvorak

Serenade in E Major

Cond. Boyd Neel

6/5/54

Royce

1

Mozart

Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)

 

6/5/54

Royce

2

Stravinsky

Oedipus Rex

Louis Calhern, Narr.

West Coast Premiere

6/6/55

Royce

1

Weber

Freischuetz, Der --  Overture

 

6/6/55

Royce

2

Brahms

Symphony No. 1

 

6/6/55

Royce

3

Einem, Gottfried von

Orchestermusik, Op. 9

American Premiere

6/6/55

Royce

4

Liebermann, Rolf

Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orch.

Les Brown's Band of Renown; Andre Previn.

West Coast Premiere

6/8/55

Chamber

1

Liebermann, Rolf

Leonore 40/45

 

Lecture by Walter Ducloux; and tape recording of the opera; score projected. WCP

6/12/55

Chamber

1

Hummel

Quartet, Op. 30, no.2

Hollywood String Quartet -- American Premiere

6/12/55

Chamber

2

Egk

tentation de saint Antoine, La

Dorothy Ledger; Hollywood String Quartet. WCP

6/12/55

Chamber

3

Dohnanyi

Quartet, Op. 33, no.3

Hollywood String Quartet

6/12/55

Chamber

4

Caplet, André

Septett for Strings and Voices

Hollywood String Quartet -- American Premiere

6/14/55

Royce

1

Vaughan Williams

Mass in G Minor

Cond. Roger Wagner.

American Premiere

6/14/55

Royce

2

Orff

Catulli carmina

Cond. Roger Wagner.

Nixon. WCP

6/11/56

Royce

1

Brahms

Academic Festival Overture

 

6/11/56

Royce

2

Vincent, John

Symphony in D (A festival piece in one movement)

West Coast Premiere

6/11/56

Royce

3

Rozsa

Violin Concerto

Tossy Spivakovsky.

West Coast Premiere

6/11/56

Royce

[4]

Berger, Theodor

Concerto Manuale

Deleted from the program

6/11/56

Royce

?

Respighi

Pines of Rome, The

 

6/11/56

Royce

?

Waxman

Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani

American Premiere

6/14/56

Schoenberg

[1]

Mozart

Divertimento No. 15 in Bb, K. 287

Deleted from the program; concert repeated on 6/16

6/14/56

Royce

1

Mozart

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

 

6/14/56

Royce

2

Mozart

Symphony No. 1, K.16

 

6/14/56

Schoenberg

3

Liebermann, Rolf

School of Wives

"after Molière's 'école des femmes'";  staged by Schnitzler, sets, Horner. Repeated  6/16. WCP 

6/18/56

Royce

1

Honegger

Symphony No. 2, Second Movement

In memoriam   --

West Coast Premiere

6/18/56

Royce

2

Jolivet

Concertino [Concerto] for Piano, Trumpet & Strings

Andre Previn, Mannie Klein -- West Coast Premiere

6/18/56

Royce

3

Debussy

Le Martyre de San Sebastien

Narr. Louis Jourdan,

Nixon, Ledger, Ruffino, RWC. WCP

6/7/57

Royce

1

Beethoven

Coriolanus Overture

 

6/7/57

Royce

2

Beethoven

Symphony No. 9

Lee, Robinson, Ledger

Glendale Choir

6/10/57

Royce

1

Holst

Hymn of Jesus, The, Op. 37

Cond. Roger Wagner

6/10/57

Royce

2

Foss

Psalms for Chorus and Orchestra

Cond. Roger Wagner,

2nd Performance

6/10/57

Royce

3

Walton

Belshazzar's Feast

Earle Wilkie; Cond. Roger Wagner

6/15/57

Royce

1

Tchaikovsky

Nutcracker, The

Tamara Toumanova , Wildimir Oukhtomisky; piano accpt.

6/15/57

Royce

2

Chopin

Eternal Love "Legende"

Ballet by Peter Boretsky & Natalie Limonick; piano accpt.

6/15/57

Royce

3

Drigo

Humoresque

Piano accpt. See 6/15

6/15/57

Royce

4

Saint-Saëns

Dying Swan, The

Piano accpt. See 6/15

6/15/57

Royce

5

Liszt

Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12

Piano accpt. See 6/15

6/15/57

Royce

6

Pugni

Grand pas classique

Piano accpt. See 6/15

6/17/57

Royce

1

Stravinsky

Greeting Prelude for the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux

 

6/17/57

Royce

2

Stravinsky

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Cond. Robert Craft; rev.1947 version

6/17/57

Royce

3

Stravinsky

Canticum Sacrum

Cond. Craft -- American Premiere

6/17/57

Royce

4

Stravinsky

Agon

Cond. Craft; Aldous Huxley speaker, Stravinsky at 75 -- World Premiere

6/17/57

Royce

5

Bach, arr. Stravinsky

Chorale and Canonic Variations on 'Von Himmel hoch'

Cond. Stravinsky

6/17/57

Royce

6

Stravinsky

Symphony of Psalms

Cond. Stravinsky

6/2/58

Royce

1

Mahler

Symphony No. 10, Adagio

West Coast Premiere

6/2/58

Royce

2

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 in B Minor - "Pathetique"

 

6/2/58

Royce

3

Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 2

Oscar Levant.

West Coast Premiere

6/2/58

Royce

4

Ravel

La Valse

 

6/7/58

Royce

1

Berezowsky

Babar the Elephant

Staged by Reese, chor. Trudi Schoop. 2 performances

6/9/58

Schoenberg

1

Haydn

Quartet in D major, Op. 76, no.5

Paganini Quartet

6/9/58

Schoenberg

2

Barber

Dover Beach

Allen Gildersleeve; Paganini Quartet

6/9/58

Schoenberg

3

Respighi

Il tramonto (The Sunset)

Eva Gustafson; Paganini Quartet

6/9/58

Schoenberg

4

Bach

Cantata no. 53: 'Schlage doch gewuenschte Stunde'

Eva Gustafson; Paganini Quartet;

Waxman, Harpsichord

6/9/58

Schoenberg

5

Ginastera

Quartet No. 1

Paganini Quartet

6/16/58

Royce

1

Schubert

German Dances

Arr. Webern; cond. Craft

6/16/58

Royce

2

Webern

Five Pieces for string orchestra, Op. 5

cond. Craft

6/16/58

Royce

3

Haydn

Symphony No. 101 -- The Clock

cond. Craft

6/16/58

Royce

[4]

Stravinsky

Faun and the Shepherdess, The, Op. 2

Deleted from program

6/16/58

Royce

4

Stravinsky

'Three songs after Pushkin'

Cond. Stravinsky. Marina Koshetz. soloist

6/16/58

Royce

5

Stravinsky

Mavra

Cond. Stravinsky.

Nixon, Robinson, Hilgenberg, Brill.

Dir. Melnitz

6/8/59

Royce

1

Weber

Overture to "Euryanthe"

 

6/8/59

Royce

2

Strauss, R.

"Burlesque" for Piano and Orchestra

Andre Previn

6/8/59

Royce

3

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 11

"The Year 1095"

West Coast Premiere

6/11/59

Schoenberg

1

Bartók

Contrasts

"Jazz in chamber music"

6/11/59

Schoenberg

2

Ravel

Sonata for Violin and Piano

"Jazz in chamber music"

6/11/59

Schoenberg

3

Smith, William O.

Five Pieces for Clarinet Alone

"Jazz in chamber music"

6/11/59

Schoenberg

4

Stravinsky

Suite from "l'histoire du soldat"

"Jazz in chamber music"

6/11/59

Schoenberg

5

Bennett, Robert Russell

Hexapoda (Five Studies in Jitteroptera)

"Jazz in chamber music"

6/13/59

Royce

1

Debussy

La Boite a Joujoux ÒThe Toy BoxÓ

Chor. Eugene Loring 2 performances

6/15/59

Royce

1

Bach

Suite no. 3 in D Major

Cond. Craft

6/15/59

Royce

2

Schoenberg

Music to a Motion Picture Scene, Op. 34

Cond. Craft

6/15/59

Royce

3

Mozart

Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201

Cond. Craft

6/15/59

Royce

4

Stravinsky

Nightingale, The

Cond. Stravinsky

Nixon, Gustavson, Robinson, Chitjan, Oliver, Gregg Smith.

West Coast Premiere

6/3/60

Royce

1

Weber

Der Freischuetz Overture

 

6/3/60

Royce

2

Hartman, Karl Amadeus

Symphony No. 1 (based on poems by Walt Whitman)

Shirley Verret-Carter; "an attempted requiem" AP

6/3/60

Royce

3

Mozart

Piano Concerto in A Major, K.488

Rebecca Penn[e]ys

6/3/60

Royce