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
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, AndrÈ	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 MoliËre's 'Ècole 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, 2^nd 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-SaÎns	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 80^th 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	BartÛk	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 “The Toy Box”	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