Boston Symphony Broadcasts for the Year 1944
1/1/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mischa Elman (vl)
C.P.E. Bach/Steinberg: Concerto in D for Strings
Martinu: Violin Concerto (Elman) {World Premiere}
1/8/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Hunter College, NY)
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina--Prelude
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7
1/15/44 Conductor: Igor Stravinsky (Symphony Hall)
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Stravinsky: Four Norwegian Moods
{World Premiere}
Stravinsky: Circus Polka
{Concert Premiere, played twice}
1/22/1944 Conductor: Vladimir Golschmann (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 3
1/29/1944 Conductor: Vladimir Golschmann (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro--Overture
Mozart: Symphony Nº 41
Milhaud: Suite provençale
2/5/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Leonore--Overture Nº 3
Brahms: Symphony Nº 3
2/12/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Hunter College, NY)
Will Geer (spk)
Schubert: Symphony Nº 8
Copland: A Lincoln Portrait (Geer)
Barber: Commando march
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever
2/19/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Rabaud: La procession nocturne
Schumann: Symphony Nº 3
2/26/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Maria Kurenko (s), Dorothy Cornish (ms), Roland
Hayes (t), Robert Collins (bs),
Cecilia Society Chorus, E. Power Biggs (organ)
Grechaninov: Missa Oecumenica (Kurenko, Cornish, Hayes, Collins,
Cecilia Society Chorus, Biggs)
{World Premiere}
3/4/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Symphony Nº 29
Barber: Symphony Nº 2 (dedicated to the Army Air Forces)
{World Premiere}
3/11/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Hunter College, NY)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le coq d'or--Introduction and Wedding March
Debussy: Nocturnes--Nuages, Fêtes
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
3/18/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Dubinushka, Russian folksong, Op. 62
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
3/25/1944 Conductor: André Kostelanetz (Symphony Hall)
Lily Pons (s)
Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon--Overture
Creston: Frontiers
Grétry: Zémire et Azor--La fauvette avec ses petits (Pons)
Stravinsky: The Firebird--Suite (1919 version)
4/1/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Hunter College, NY)
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila--Overture
Rachmaninov: Symphony Nº 2
4/8/1944 Conductor: G. Wallace Woodworth (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 80
Piston: Symphony Nº 2
4/15/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 Nº 6
Harris: Symphony Nº 6 {World Premiere}
4/22/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Shostakovich: Symphony Nº 8
4/29/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in d, Op. 3 Nº 11--Largo
Brahms: Symphony Nº 4
7/29/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Tanglewood)
Mozart: Symphony Nº 29
Mozart: Divertimento in B flat for Strings with Two Horns, K. 287
8/5/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Tanglewood)
Ruth Posselt (vl)
Mozart: Symphony Nº 25
Mozart: Violin Concerto Nº 4 (Posselt)
10/7/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 3
10/14/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Foote: Suite for Strings in E, Op. 63
Diamond: Symphony Nº 2 {World Premiere}
10/21/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Pierre Luboshutz (pf), Genia Nemenoff (pf)
Corelli-Pinelli: Sarabande, Gigue and Badinierie
Schoenberg: Theme and Variations for Orchestra, Op. 43b {World
Premiere}
Mozart: Two-Piano Concerto, K. 365 (Luboshutz, Nemenoff)
10/28/1944 Conductor: Richard Burgin (Symphony Hall)
Zino Francescatti (vl)
Bach-Weiner: Organ toccata in C
Paganini: Violin Concerto Nº 1 (Francescatti)
11/4/1944 Conductor: Richard Burgin (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7
11/11/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
William Primrose (va)
Toch: Pinocchio, a merry overture
Berlioz: Harold en Italie (Primrose)
11/18/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Hunter College, NY)
Schuman: Prayer in time of war
Shostakovich: Symphony Nº 6
11/25/1944 Conductor: Leonard Bernstein (Symphony Hall)
Jesús Maria Sanromá (pf)
Brahms: Piano Concerto Nº 1 (Sanromá)
12/2/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Idomeneo--Overture
Franck: Symphony in d
12/9/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Milwaukee)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 5
12/16/1944 Conductor: Dmitri Mitropoulos (Symphony Hall)
Mendelssohn: Symphony Nº 3
Gould: Spirituals for String choir and Orchestra
12/23/1944 Conductor: Dmitri Mitropoulos (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte--Overture
Krenek: Variations on "I wonder as I wander"
Schubert: Symphony Nº 2
12/30/1944 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra