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 “Love, the Magician”	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