The first 75 years of performances
This first-ever compilation of 75 years of Celebrity Series performance history covers nearly 3,000 engagements by the worlds’ greatest performers illuminating the critical role the organization has played in shaping Boston’s cultural life.
The Boston impresario Aaron Richmond launched his Celebrity Series on October 9, 1938, when he presented a concert by Serge Jaroff and the Don Cossack Choir in Symphony Hall. Jaroff’s hugely popular choir of deep-voiced Russians in exile sang— and danced—a repertory of traditional Russian sacred and folk music. They had taken audiences in this country by storm in 1930; just two years before this Boston appearance all of them had become American citizens in a single widely-publicized ceremony.
That performance launched a series of 30 concerts, recitals and performances—and a history that has now reached its 75th season, which will present more than twice as many performances. Over the years, the Celebrity Series has presented almost 3,000 engagements in nearly 30 venues featuring prestigious artists, young and old, and representing just about every genre: orchestral concerts, chamber music, solo recitals by singers and instrumentalists, opera and operetta, folk music, early music, contemporary music, ballet and modern dance, educational events, traditional jazz and Broadway music, lectures, and theatrical performances stretching all the way to the Asian circus arts.
Budget figures of that first season are not available, but today’s annual budget has grown to $7 million. Over the years, the series has had four directors and operated under half a dozen names, but its activity has been continuous and its core sense of purpose unwavering: “to present world-class artists who inspire and enrich our community.”
Aaron Richmond, dapper and with a neatly trimmed moustache in his photographs, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and trained as a musician, a pianist, there and in Boston. By the time he was in his early 20s he was performing professionally but he eventually decided to concentrate on entrepreneurial activities. He never gave up the piano, however, and for years maintained a teaching studio adjacent to his office.
He began by managing the careers of some of his New England friends and colleagues. The next step was to present concerts by artists from a prominent New
York management company of the era, and the step beyond was to create his own series, presenting artists he admired no matter what manager or agency handled them. The most unusual aspect of his operation was apparently in place from the beginning; members of the public were allowed to create their own subscriptions from the list, making their choice for a single price. A version of this practice is still in place today, and it has been adopted by many other presenting organizations around the country.
Aaron Richmond’s Celebrity Series prospered because of this system—and because of Richmond’s personal taste in programming and his educated sense of who and what would attract the public.
Richmond ran the series for 27 years; unlike many other individuals in the world of the arts who created their own small organizations, Richmond was concerned about the future, so he hand-picked and trained a successor who would carry on the business. In 1957 he hired a young man from Somerville named Walter Pierce who was then working as a publicist for the South Shore Music Circus to help part-time; three years later Pierce left that job to work full-time for Richmond. It was there that he met his future wife Betty Ann, who was working as Richmond’s secretary. After Richmond died in 1965, Pierce worked as co-director with Richmond’s widow before assuming full responsibility upon her retirement. He remained in charge for 30 years, and like Richmond, chose and trained his own successor, Martha H. Jones. Pierce recruited her from the Huntington Theater Company in 1986 and she held the position of president and executive director from 1996-2011. When she announced her own decision to retire, the board launched a national search for a successor, and Gary H. Dunning from the Big Apple Circus was appointed to the position. So far he has been implementing plans that were in place at the time of his appointment, but he certainly has big plans of his own.
In 1953 Richmond created an important affiliation with Boston University and the series became known as the Boston University Celebrity Series. This was a first step towards acquiring official non-profit status, which
arrived in 1989. Later Pierce negotiated a relationship with the Wang Center—now the Citi Performing Arts Center—and still later partnerships with banks during a period of acquisitions and mergers, so the Celebrity Series bore confusingly at various times the names of four different banks that were the same.
Pierce also oversaw the creation and development of a board to supervise the operation of the Celebrity Series and assure stability, and a considerable expansion of both its season and its educational activities. He continued the Celebrity Series’ longstanding commitment to world-class artists who happened to live or teach in the area and institutionalized a showcase for young locally-trained musicians, the Emerging Artists Series (the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was one of them). Jones enlarged this into Boston Marquee, which brought dance into the mix with local troupes; in a challenging economic climate, she worked to restore major international and national dance companies to the main roster. She continued to enlarge and strengthen the board, and to emphasize educational programs and community involvement. She developed Amy Lam as artistic programmer, a position Lam continues to hold in the Dunning regime.
To survive, Celebrity Series must embrace change, but also celebrate continuity. Nancy Richmond Winston, Aaron Richmond’s daughter, is still a supporter of the Celebrity Series and frequently attends concerts, particularly the recital series named for her father. Walter Pierce, now 83 and as alert, gracious and gentlemanly as ever, is also almost always present; after his wife died, he met the captivating pianist Margaret Ulmer, who was playing a Series recital as accompanist, and now she sits at his side. And the elegant Marty Jones is also frequently on hand.
list pretty thoroughly documents the history of top-level performance over the last three-quarters of a century and charts such trends as the rise of the early-music movement, the decline of tours by orchestras and large companies that used to be able to depend on government subsidies for touring, the interest in world music, the dwindling of major Wagnerian voices, and the rise of singers equipped to deal with bel canto and Baroque repertory. It substantially represents the major personalities of the musical world in that period—and longer. Ignace Jan Paderewski played one of the last concerts of his life in the first Celebrity Series season; he suffered a career-ending stroke not long afterwards while on his way to play a recital in Madison Square Garden. He was born in 1860 and had been the most famous living pianist for nearly 50 years (despite the notorious quip of one of his rivals, who proclaimed “Paderewski is no Paderewski”).
The “most demanding” artist was probably the fabled pianist Vladimir Horowitz who appeared 10 times on the series during the last years of his career, beginning in 1968. This writer, still a student, was there, perched in one of those backless seats up against the side wall in the second balcony of Symphony Hall from which he had to stand up to see the pianist’s almost motionless hands. Horowitz’s contract was full of requirements—he ate only grey sole, and Pierce had to arrange blackout curtains for his suite at the Ritz. Mrs. Horowitz was officiously on hand to make sure every requirement was met.
“To survive, Celebrity Series must embrace change, but also celebrate continuity.”
Jack Wright, director of marketing and communications, has done some very interesting statistical work in connection with the 75th anniversary season. The company that has made the most appearances on the series is the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which has given 222 performances during 43 engagements since 1968. The list of artists who have appeared with the series runs to some sixty pages and it includes some elusive names, like Maria Callas, in her only Boston appearance or the famous canceling pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli or Glenn Gould, who cancelled his entire career as a live performer. It is difficult to think of many who should be on the list but who aren’t. The
An anecdotal history of difficulties and disasters would be extensive. Venues have always been a problem, and there is heavy demand for the most desirable ones. Pierce shudders at the memory of what he faced when the old Boston Opera House closed down and he had to deal with 4,000 ticket holders for the Royal Ballet who had learned that there were only 3,000 seats in the substitute venue, or of the occasion when the ceiling of the Wang Theatre caved in before a concert by Luciano Pavarotti and he had to install seats and a stage in the Hynes Convention Center almost overnight. The Vice Squad once arrived to shut down a performance by the Katharine Dunham Dance Company. Celebrity Series
officials have needed to know all about hairdressers and spotlights and piano technicians, and throat doctors, and fish markets and anti-communist protesters. This writer first attended a Celebrity Series concert in 1964 and as a music critic for the Boston Globe covered events for 33 seasons. A survey of highlights and reminiscences would spread far beyond the limits of this publication. But one of the things that impresses me most is how well the series has managed to balance the sometimes conflicting imperatives of box-office appeal and artistic adventure. When the Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra wanted to devote an entire tour program to Luciano Berio’s “Coro,” the Celebrity Series swallowed hard and said “Yes.” When Luciano Pavarotti made his recital debut to a half-filled Symphony Hall the Celebrity Series liked what it heard, noted the audience response, and re-engaged him. When a hugely-hyped young pianist cancelled, the Celebrity Series hired the virtuallyunknown Dubravka Tomsic to replace him, and she became a special favorite of the local public and returned often.
Lauritz Melchior and Lotte Lehmann. The preeminent German violinist Adolf Busch appeared both with his string quartet and in recital with his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin. Serkin appeared regularly with the Series for the rest of his life—48 times in all. The popular Polish pianist Jan Smeterlin appeared in ten successive seasons and his handful of records are now collector’s prizes. He was an ardent chef and the author of a cookbook that contained the first published recipe for flourless chocolate cake, which may be why Richmond enjoyed having him around. (How many of these artists were émigrés and refugees from Hitler’s Europe!).
“When Luciano Pavarotti made his recital debut to a half-filled Symphony Hall the Celebrity Series liked what it heard, noted the audience response, and re-engaged him.”
In the first season of Aaron Richmond’s Celebrity Series, he presented many artists represented by Richmond’s mentor and colleague, the colorful Sol Hurok, as well as younger musicians and local artists. The season also included conductor Arturo Toscanini leading the brand-new orchestra NBC had created for him. The African-American contralto Marian Anderson sang here in the same season in which she vaulted to iconic fame when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to appear in their Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest. The Celebrity Series was color-blind from the beginning. The season also included recitals by the Metropolitan Opera’s sensational new soprano Kirsten Flagstad and two of her Wagnerian colleagues from the Met,
Dance—in addition to the Ballet Russe—was represented by the American avant-garde figures Angna Enters and Doris Humphrey, and her partner Charles Weidman, by the Swiss comic dancer, Trudi Schoop, who was known as “the dancing Charlie Chaplin,” and La Argentinita and Her Spanish Dancers. La Argentinita was a flamenco dancer and singer who in 1931 had made a series of records of Spanish folksongs with the great poet and playwright Federico García Lorca at the piano; two years before her Boston appearance, Lorca had been murdered during the Spanish Civil War. There were also popular American artists like the tenor Richard Crooks and the baritone John Charles Thomas, and local representation as well —Ludwig Juht, the principal double bass of the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave a recital, and the BSO’s new principal cellist Paul Tortelier played a recital with the young American pianist Leonard Shure. That first season—how one would have loved to be there—laid the groundwork and many aspects of it are still firmly in place, several generations of artists and administrators later. Many performances remain cherished memories for those who were present. And there is no reason to doubt that future audiences, 75 years from now, will look back in the 2013-2014 season and events like Mark Morris’s production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea with comparable interest, envy, and astonishment.
Richard Dyer wrote about music in The Boston Globe for thirty-three years, and since leaving the newspaper remains active writing, teaching, and lecturing.
“Music to me is not just a business, an occupation, but a passion ... presenting great artists to the public, and expanding that public, is my mission. I never feel right unless I am convinced that my artists are of top rank.”
–Aaron Richmond
As a young man, Aaron Richmond sought a career as a concert pianist. An early opportunity came when Richmond filled in as pianist for a series of dates on the Chautauqua circuit, the traveling rural adult education movement. Richmond later organized Richmond’s Little Symphony, a sextet that toured the circuit for several summers playing arrangements of orchestral works.
An onstage memory lapse during Richmond’s Boston debut caused him to reevaluate his professional goals and led him to a career in music management, and through the 1920s and 30s Richmond worked as both an artist manager and concert presenter. His artist management activities included stints as New England Manager of the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau and as the sole New England representative for the National Concert and Artists Corporation. Throughout this period, Richmond regularly presented classical music and dance in Boston. He formally announced the creation of Aaron Richmond’s Celebrity Series in April 1938.
The following selected list of Boston debuts reflects the Celebrity Series commitment to presenting performers from the earliest stages of their careers.
1938 – 39
11 Nov 1938 Harry Hartwell, tenor
09 Dec 1938 Giorgio Ciompi, violin
06 Jan 1939 Argentinita and her Spanish Dancers
19 Jan 1939 Eugenia Buxton, piano
05 Feb 1939 Rudolf Serkin, piano (recital debut)
14 Feb 1939 Thelma Jerguson, soprano
02 Mar 1939 Robert Kitain, violin
26 Mar 1939 Busch Quartet
25 Oct 1939 Celius Dougherty and Vincenz Ruzicka, duo piano
22 Nov 1939 Jessica Dragonette, soprano
1940 – 49
15 Feb 1940 Griller Quartet (with Felix Fox, piano)
24 Nov 1940 Kerstin Thorborg, contralto
25 Nov 1940 Norma Farber, soprano
12 Dec 1940 Trapp Family Singers
11 Jan 1941 Budapest String Quartet
13-15 Jan 1941 Carmalita Maracci
19 Feb 1941 Donald Dickson, baritone
09 Mar 1941 Howard Slayman, piano
21-24 Jan 1942 Ballet Theatre (with Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin)
17 Feb 1942 Bernard Weiser, piano
20 Oct 1942 Carlotta Franzel, soprano
20 Nov 1942 Conrad Thibault, baritone
11 Mar 1943 Louis Kaufman, violin
14 Mar 1943 Hilda Banks, piano
16 Nov 1943 Sari Biro, piano
29 Jan 1944 William Kapell, piano
09 Feb 1944 Ralph Jusko, bass
04 Nov 1944 Carroll Glenn, violin
28 Nov 1944 Alexander Borovsky, piano
08 Dec 1944 Rudolf Firkusny, piano
25 Jan 1945 Nota Camberos, soprano
11 Nov 1945 Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
18 Nov 1945 American Ballad Singers
28 Nov 1945 Frederic Keating, piano
29 Nov 1945 Joseph Schuster, cello
10 Jan 1946 Abbey Simon, piano
22 Jan 1946 Jakob Gimpel, piano
25 Oct 1946 Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Town Choir
16 Nov 1946 Tota Economou, piano
24 Nov 1946 Alexander Uninsky, piano
08 Dec 1946 Icelandic Singers
17-18 Jan 1947 Pearl Primus Dance Company
17 Feb 1947 Gerhard Kander, violin
13 Apr 1947 San Francisco Symphony (Pierre Monteux, conductor)
04 Nov 1947 Bruce Barbour, piano
23 Nov 1947 Richard Dyer-Bennett
14 Jan 1948 Iva Kitchell
01 Feb 1948 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor; Yves Chardon, cello)
17 Feb 1948 Joseph Bloch, piano
29 Feb 1948 Nancy Trickey, soprano
20 Oct 1948 Orchestre National de France (Charles Münch, conductor)
01 Dec 1948 Ellabelle Davis, soprano
08 Dec 1948 Trieste Trio
18 Feb 1949 Ania Dorfmann, piano
13 Mar 1949 Oscar Bogerth, violin
10 Apr 1949 Adele Addison, soprano
11 Apr 1949 Norman Carol, violin
24 Apr 1949 Wanda Landowska, harpsichord
09 Nov 1949 Francis Poulenc, pianist/composer and Pierre Bernac, baritone
27 Nov 1949 Paganini Quartet
29 Nov 1949 Tung Kwong-Kwong, piano
04 Dec 1949 Ebe Stignani, soprano
1950 – 59
22 Jan 1950 Maryla Jonas, piano
02 Feb 1950 Mildah Polia, mezzo-soprano
19 Feb 1950 Italo Tajo, bass-baritone
30 Oct 1950 Jacques Abram, piano
18 Nov 1950 Wanda Paul, piano
28 Nov 1950 Julian Olevsky, violin
8-13 Jan 1951 Sadler’s Wells Ballet
20 Jan 1951 Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Serge Koussevitzky, conductor)
14 Mar 1951 Marilyn Neeley, piano
16 Mar 1951 Kurt Baum, tenor
11 Apr 1951 Friedrich Gulda, piano
28 Oct 1951 Victoria de Los Angeles, soprano
29 Nov 1951 Dorothea Redfield Jump, cello
05 Dec 1951 Cathalene Parker, mezzo-soprano
14 Feb 1952 Isabel Mourao, piano
24 Feb 1952 Winifred Cecil, soprano
09 Mar 1952 Clifford Curzon, piano
17-22 Mar 1952 Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet
23 Mar 1952 Virtuoso di Roma
06 Apr 1952 Todd Duncan, baritone
20 Nov 1952 Ervin Laszlo, piano
04 Jan 1953 Emelina Gentili, soprano
29 Jan 1953 Monique de la Bruchollerie, piano
01 Feb 1953 Badura-Skoda, piano
29 Mar 1953 William Warfield, bass-baritone
20 Jan 1954 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano
14 Feb 1954 Antal Dorati, conductor (with Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra)
09 Apr 1954 Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
24 Oct 1954 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
28 Nov 1954 Amsterdam Concertgebouw (Edward Van Beinum, conductor)
30 Jan 1955 Zadel Skolovsky, piano
21-29 Feb 1955 London Festival Ballet
24 Mar 1955 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Herbert von Karajan, conductor)
02 Oct 1955 Santa Cecilia Choir
23 Oct 1955 Emil Gilels, piano
19 Nov 1955 Philharmonia Orchestra of London (Herbert von Karajan, conductor)
20 Nov 1955 Joerg Demus, piano
05 Feb 1956 Leon Fleisher, piano
03-07 Oct 1956 Royal Danish Ballet
02 Dec 1956 Vienna Philharmonic (Carl Schuricht, conductor)
08 Dec 1956 David Oistrakh, violin
09 Dec 1956 Golden Age Singers of London
14 Dec 1956 Yugoslav Folk Ballet, Kolo
03 Apr 1957 Lily Dumont, piano
01 Oct 1957 The Black Watch (at Boston Garden)
14 Feb 1958 New York Pro Musica Antiqua
13-14 Jun 1958 Moiseyev Dance Company (at Boston Garden)
02 Nov 1958 Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
05 Dec 1958 Geoffrey Holder and Company
14 Dec 1958 Vienna Academy Chorus
16 Jan 1959 National Symphony Orchestra (Howard Mitchell, conductor, Leontyne Price, soprano)
04 Mar 1959 Jussi Bjoerling, tenor
21 Apr 1959 Zara Doloukhanova, mezzo-soprano
02 Nov 1959 Mstislav Rostropovich, cello (Alesander Dedukhin, piano)
08 Nov 1959 Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Theatre
1960 – 69
22 Jan 1960 Moscow State Symphony, Kirill Kondrashin, conductor, Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano (debut of orchestra, conductor and singer)
16 Feb 1960 Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano (American recital debut; Alesander Dedukhin, piano)
10 Apr 1960 Lamoureux Orchestra (Igor Markevich, conductor)
14 Oct 1960 Van Cliburn, piano
27 Nov 1960 Leonid Kogan, violin
01 Dec 1960 Boleslaw Woytowicz, piano
02 Dec 1960 Ximenez-Vargas Ballet Español
11 Dec 1960
15 Jan 1961
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Dmitri Bashkirov, piano
17 Jan 1961 Ludwig Olshansky, piano
12 Feb 1961 Warsaw Philharmonic (Witold Rowicki, conductor; Wanda Wilkominska, violin soloist)
24 Mar 1961 Zachary Solov Ballet Company
13-14 Oct 1961 Leningrad Kirov Ballet (at Boston Garden)
22 Oct 1961 Detroit Symphony (Paul Paray, conductor; Glenn Gould, piano soloist)
30 Oct 1961 Julian Bream, guitar
05 Nov 1961 Roger Wagner Chorale
28 Nov 1961 Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
05 Dec 1961 Amadeus Quartet
18 Mar 1962 Birgit Nilsson, soprano
18 Oct 1962 Leningrad Philharmonic (Eugen Mravinsky, conductor; part of U.S./ Soviet cultural exchange program)
20-26 Nov 1962 Bolshoi Ballet (with Maya Plisetskaya)
22 Feb 1963 Poznan Choir
23 Feb 1963 Joan Sutherland, soprano
22 Mar 1963 Boris Gutnikov, violin
24 Nov 1963 Daniel Barenboim, piano (soloist with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor)
05-07 Dec 1963 Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
15 Jan 1964 John Ogdon, piano
08 Mar 1964 Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor)
07 Mar 1965 Daniel Barenboim, piano (recital debut; replaced Leon Fleisher)
03 Apr 1965 Hague Philharmonic (Willem van Oterloo, conductor)
25 Apr 1965 BBC Symphony Orchestra (Antal Dorati, conductor)
20 Feb 1966 Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
16 Oct 1966 Moscow Chamber Orchestra (Rudolf Barshai, conductor)
11 Dec 1966 Alfred Brendel, piano
17-24 Jan 1967 Bristol Old Vic (“Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet”)
12 Feb 1967 Montserrat Caballe, soprano
05 Nov 1967 Alicia de Larrocha, piano
27 Jan 1968 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
23 Oct 1968 Orchestre de Paris (Charles Munch, conductor)
15 Nov 1968 Camerata Singers, (Abraham Kaplan, conductor)
18 Jan 1969 Paul Taylor Dance Company
09 Mar 1969 Israel Chamber Orchestra (Gary Bertini, conductor)
08-09 Oct 1969 Stuttgart Ballet (“Eugene Onegin”)
31 Oct 1969 Melos Ensemble
11 Nov 1969 Irina Arkhipova, mezzo-soprano
19 Nov 1969 Nehama Lifschitz
23 Nov 1969 Gary Graffman, piano
1970 – 79
25 Feb 1970 Jacqueline du Pré, cello (with Daniel Barenboim, piano)
25 Oct 1970 Zubin Mehta, conductor (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic)
28 Feb 1971 Grigory Sokolov, piano
02-03 Mar 1971 Australian Ballet (with Rudolf Nureyev)
12 Nov 1971 Henryk Szeryng, violin
05 Dec 1971 Raymond Lewenthal, piano
10 Nov 1973 Alirio Diaz, guitar
01 Dec 1973 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
27 Jan 1974 Tokyo String Quartet
23 Feb 1974 Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute and Robert Veyron-Lacroix, keyboard
13 Oct 1974 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Kurt Masur, conductor)
26 Oct 1974 Toho String Orchestra, Tadaaki Oyaka, conductor
01 Nov 1974 L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor; Etsuko Tazaki, piano)
12-13 Nov 1974 Royal Swedish Ballet (“Swan Lake”)
28 Feb 1975 Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra (Alain Lombard, conductor; Jean-Bernard Pommier, piano soloist)
07 Dec 1975 Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Sixten Ehrling, conductor; Leo Berlin, violin)
10 Dec 1976 Aulos Wind Quintet (with Rudolf Serkin, piano)
09 Dec 1977 Maurice André, trumpet
28 Apr 1978 Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, (Rafael Kubelik, conductor)
18-19 Feb 1978 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
21 Oct 1978 National Choir of Israel - Rinat
26 Nov 1978 James Galway (with the New Irish Chamber Orchestra)
06 Apr 1979 Steven De Groote, piano
1980 – 89
28 Mar 1980 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Robert Shaw, conductor and the New England Conservatory Chorus)
09 Nov 1980 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (Iona Brown, conductor)
02 Apr 1981 Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
12 Apr 1981 Youri Egorov, piano
18 Apr 1982 Shlomo Mintz, violin
19 Nov 1982 Annie Fischer, piano
21 Nov 1982 Salvatore Accardo, violin
26 Jan 1983 Carlos Prieto, cello
15 Sep 1984 Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble (Christopher Hogwood, director)
04 Nov 1984 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio (Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaimie Laredo, violin; and Sharon Robinson, cello)
26-27 Jan 1985 Bejart Ballet of the 20th Century
15 Mar 1985 Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Shlomo Mintz, violin)
20 Oct 1985 Westminster Cathedral Choir
17 Oct 1986 Krystian Zimerman, piano
07 Dec 1986 José Feghali, piano
17 Apr 1988 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Simon Rattle, conductor)
05 Mar 1989 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (with Alfred Brendel, piano)
1990 – 99
04 Mar 1990 Samuel Ramey, bass
19 Mar 1990 Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn (Dennis Russell Davies, conductor)
07 Oct 1990 Lezginka State Ensemble of Folk Dance
26 Oct 1990 London Classical Players
06 Feb 1991 USSR State Symphony (Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor)
15 Mar 1991 Dubravka Tomsic, piano
20 Apr 1991 Joshua Bell, violin
24 Oct 1991 Evgeny Kissin, piano
09 Feb 1992 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
16 Feb 1992 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Libor Pesek, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano)
21 Feb 1992 Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano (“Homage to Rossini ”)
08 Mar 1992 Midori, violin
29 Nov 1992 Dame Moura Lympany, piano
12 Nov 1993 Tango X 2
26 Oct 1994 Century Orchestra Osaka (Uri Segal, conductor)
05 Nov 1994 Simone Pedroni, piano
08 Dec 1996 Orion String Quartet (with the Guarneri String Quartet)
16 Nov 1997 Awadagin Pratt, piano
31 Oct 1999 Emmanuel Pahud, flute
2000 – 09
18 Mar 2001 Osmo Vänskä, conductor (with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Stephen Hough, piano soloist)
08 Mar 2002 Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
08 Feb 2003 Stanislav Ioudenitch, piano
08 Nov 2003 Lang Lang, piano
12 Feb 2005 Soweto Gospel Choir
13 May 2005 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
13 Nov 2005 Deborah Voigt, soprano
08 Dec 2006 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
02-03 Feb 2007 Complexions Contemporary Ballet
11 Oct 2007 Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
11 Nov 2007 African Children’s Choir (“Journey of Hope”)
17 Nov 2007 Maria Schneider Orchestra
13 Jan 2008 Golden Dragon Acrobats
03 Feb 2008 Cherryholmes
15 Mar 2008 Imani Winds
09 May 2008 ETHEL
22 Feb 2009 Angela Hewitt, piano
01 Nov 2009 Ingrid Fliter, piano
2010 – 13
05 Mar 2010 Artemis String Quartet
06 Mar 2010 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester (“A Night in Berlin”)
23 Apr 2010 Maya Beiser, cello (“World to Come”)
27-28 Apr 2010 Danish Dance Theater
03 Dec 2010 Hoachen Zhang, piano
28 Jan 2011 Philharmonia Quartett Berlin
04-05 Mar 2011 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
24 Mar 2011 Matthew Polenzani, tenor 01-02 Apr 2011 BeijingDance/LDTX
10 May 2011 Compagnia TPO (“Farfalle”)
04-05 Nov 2011 Aszure Barton and Artists
27 Jan 2012 Roby Lakatos Ensemble
28 Jan 2012 Lise de la Salle, piano
31 Jan 2012 The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Stuart Duncan, fiddle; Edgar Meyer, bass; Chris Thile, mandolin; House of Blues)
03-04 Feb 2012 Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, “Oyster”
26 Feb 2012 Hagen Quartet
12 Jan 2013 Paul Lewis, piano
05-06 Apr 2013 Spellbound Dance Company
1938-1 939
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Alexander Kipnis, bass
Angna Enters, “Episodes in Dance Form”
Anne Mundy, piano
Argentinita and her Spanish Dancers
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Busch Quartet
Don Cossack Chorus
Doris Humphrey & Charles Weidman
Dorothy Gordon, “The Song and Story Lady”
Elmer Schoettle, piano
Eugenia Buxton, piano
Giorgio Ciompi, violin
Harry Hartwell, tenor
Ignace Paderewski, piano (“For the Benefit of the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation”)
Jan Smeterlin, piano
John Charles Thomas, baritone
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Leonard Shure, piano and Paul Tortelier, cello
Lotte Lehmann, soprano and Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Ludwig Juht, double bass
Marian Anderson, contralto
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, conductor
Ralph Lawton, piano
Richard Crooks, tenor
Robert Kitain, violin
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Thelma Jerguson, soprano
Trudi Schoop & Her Dancing Comedians, “All for Love”
Winifred Christie, piano (“Recital on Moor Double-keyboard piano”)
1939-1940
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Argentinita & her Spanish Dancers (with Carlos Montoya, guitar)
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Catherine Carver, piano
Celius Dougherty and Vincenz Ruzicka, duo piano
Don Cossack Chorus
Fritz Kreisler, violin
George Copeland, piano
George Copeland, piano and Cleora Wood, soprano
Griller Quartet with Felix Fox, piano
Harriett Wolffers, violin and Jules Wolffers, piano
Isabel French, soprano
Jan Kiepura, tenor
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jessica Dragonette, soprano
Jesús María Sanromá, piano, Richard Burgin, violin, Jean Bedetti, cello
John Charles Thomas, baritone
Jooss Ballet
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Kolisch Quartet
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mikhail Sheyne, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Nathan Milstein, violin
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
1940-1941
Argentinita & her Spanish Dancers (with Carlos Montoya, guitar)
Arthur LeBlanc, violin
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Benny Goodman, clarinet; Bela Bartók and Ditto Pasztory Bartók, piano; Josef Szigeti, violin
Budapest String Quartet
Carmalita Maracci
Don Cossack Chorus
Donald Dickson, baritone
Emanuel Feuermann, cello and Albert Hirsch, piano
Fritz Kreisler, violin
George Copeland, piano
Gordon Quartet and Harold Bauer, piano
Grace Leslie, contralto
Howard Slayman, piano
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jesús Maria Sanromá, piano
Kerstin Thorborg, contralto
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Lawrence Tibbett, baritone
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mischa Elman, violin
Norma Farber, soprano
Primrose Quartet
Richard Crooks, tenor
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Trapp Family Singers
1941-1942
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Angna Enters
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballet Theatre
Bernard Weiser, piano
Budapest String Quartet
Carmen Amaya
Don Cossack Chorus
Dorothy Maynor, soprano
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Halmar Grabeau, piano
Helen Traubel, soprano (interlude: Jean Bedetti, cello and Leonard Bernstein, piano)
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jeanne Kimball, soprano
Katherine Baxter, piano
Kerstin Thorborg, contralto
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mischa Elman, violin
Norma Farber, soprano (“Songs of the Americas”)
Philadelphia Opera Company, “Marriage of Figaro,” “The Bat,” “Faust,” “Pelleas et Melisande,”
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Trapp Family Singers (3 performances)
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
1942-1943
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano (2 performances)
Artur Schnabel, piano
Ballet Theatre (with Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, and Irina Baronova)
Beveridge Webster, piano
Carlotta Franzel, soprano
Carmen Amaya
Conrad Thibault, baritone
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Don Cossack Chorus
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Hilda Banks, piano
Jan Smeterlin, piano (Benefit for Linen & Cotton Division of the British War Relief Society)
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Louis Kaufman, violin
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mary Becker, violin
Mischa Elman, violin
Patricia Travers, violin
Philadelphia Opera Company
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Polyna Stoska, soprano
Richard Crooks, tenor
Ruth Draper (“In her inimitable Character Sketches”)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Trapp Family Singers
1943-1944
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballet Theatre (included Leonard Bernstein’s “Fancy Free”)
Budapest String Quartet
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleora Wood, soprano and Ariel Hall, harp (“enlisted personnel free”)
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Curtis String Quartet with Boris Goldovsky, piano
Don Cossack Chorus
E. Robert Schmitz, piano
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Hilda Banks, piano
Jan Peerce, tenor
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jascha Heifetz, violin
John Charles Thomas, baritone
José Iturbi, piano
Katherine Dunham & Dancers, “Tropical Revue, A Musical Heatwave” (Banned after one performance)
Klaus Goetze, piano
Lily Pons, soprano
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Marguerite Namara, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mildred Jenkins, soprano
Mischa Elman, violin
Ralph Jusko, bass
Robert Hall Collins, baritone
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Ruth Posselt, violin
Sari Biro, piano
Trapp Family Singers
William Kapell, piano
The Celebrity Series booked African-American choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham and her show, Tropical Revue: A Musical Heat Wave , into the Boston Opera House in January 1944. Her scheduled run of three sold out shows was banned by the city censors after 1 performance.
1944-1945
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Alexander Borovsky, piano
Angna Enters
Argentinita & her Spanish Dancers
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Aubrey Pankey, baritone
Ballet Theatre
Bernhard Weiser, piano
Boris Goldovsky, piano
Budapest String Quartet
Camille Girouard, baritone
Carroll Glenn, violin
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Ezio Pinza, bass
Fritz Kreisler, violin
General Platoff Don Cossack Russian Chorus and Dancers
Gladys Swarthout, contralto
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jeanette McDonald
Jesús Maria Sanromá, piano
José Iturbi, piano
Josef Szigeti, violin
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Martha Graham Dance Company
Mischa Elman, violin
Nota Camberos, soprano
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Richard Crooks, tenor
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Ruth Draper
Trapp Family Singers
William Kapell, piano
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
1945-1946
Abbey Simon, piano
Alec Templeton
Alexander Borovsky, piano
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
American Ballad Singers, “A Salute to American Song!”
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bernhard Weiser, piano
Boris Goldovsky, piano
Budapest String Quartet
Dalies Frantz, piano
Don Cossack Chorus (2 performances)
Ezio Pinza, bass
Frederic Keating, piano
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello and Ralph Berkowitz, piano
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Sevitzky, conductor; Jan Smeterlin, piano
Isaac Stern, violin
Jakob Gimpel, piano
James Melton, tenor
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jan Veen and his dancers
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Schuster, cello
Joseph Szigeti, violin and Claudio Arrau, piano
Katherine Baxter, piano
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Louis Kaufman, violin
Mack Harrell, baritone
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mikhail Sheyne, piano
Monte Nelson, piano
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Paul Draper & Larry Adler
Rudolf Serkin, piano
The collaboration and friendship between the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and Aaron Richmond began in 1926 and continued until Richmond’s death in 1965.
In this photo, Richmond and Hurok discuss a five year concert schedule with soprano Adele Addison
Sir Thomas Beecham (lecture/recital on Mozart and the 18th Century)
Trapp Family Singers
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
1946-1947
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Alec Templeton
Alexander Schneider, violin and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord
Alexander Uninsky, piano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Don Cossack Chorus
Edith Stearns, piano
Ezio Pinza, bass
Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Town Choir
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Gerhard Kander, violin
Griller String Quartet
Icelandic Singers
Jan Peerce, tenor
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Joaquín Nin-Culmell, piano
Joseph Weingarten, piano
Lily Pons, soprano
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Luise Vosgerchian, piano
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Martial Singher, baritone
Miriam Winslow
Nancy Loring, mezzo-contralto
Paul Draper & Larry Adler
Pearl Primus Dance Company
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Ruth Posselt, violin
San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux, conductor
Tota Economou, piano
Trapp Family Singers
Valparaiso University Choir
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
1947-1948
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
Alicia Markova & Anton Dolin and dancers
Anley Loran, piano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bruce Barbour, piano
Claudio Arrau, piano
Don Cossack Chorus (“32 singing horsemen”)
Ezio Pinza, bass
Ferruccio Tagliavini, tenor
First Piano Quartet
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Giorgio Ciompi, violin
Griller String Quartet
Harald Kreutzberg
Hazel Hallett, piano
Helen Alexander, soprano
Iva Kitchell
John Charles Thomas, baritone
Joseph Bloch, piano
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor; Yves Chardon, cello
Nancy Trickey, soprano
Paul Draper & Larry Adler
Pearl Primus
Reah Sadowsky, piano
Richard Dyer-Bennett
Richard Tauber, tenor
Risë Stevens, soprano
Robert Brink, violin
Rosario & Antonio
Ruth Posselt, violin & Luise Vosgerchian, piano
Susan Williams Lunn, piano
William Kapell, piano
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
1948-1949
Adele Addison, soprano
Alec Templeton
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Ania Dorfmann, piano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Busch Quartet & Rudolf Serkin, piano
Christopher Lynch, tenor
Claudio Arrau, piano
Don Cossack Chorus
E. Robert Schmitz, piano
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Ellabelle Davis, soprano
Ezio Pinza, bass
Ferruccio Tagliavini, tenor
First Piano Quartet
Francis Poulenc, pianist/composer and Pierre Bernac, baritone
Freda Trepel, piano
Iva Kitchell
Jacqueline Bazinet, soprano and Edgar Viens, baritone
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Kensley Rosen, violin
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Luise Vosgerchian, piano
Marian Anderson, contralto
New York Philharmonic, Leopold Stowkowski, conductor
Norman Carol, violin
Orchestre National de France, Charles Münch, conductor
Oscar Bogerth, violin
Richard Dyer-Bennett
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Trieste Trio
Vienna Choir Boys
Wanda Landowska, harpsichord
Webster Aitken, piano
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
1949-1950
Adele Addison, soprano
Adolf Busch, violin and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Celia Huan, piano
de Paur’s Infantry Chorus
Don Cossack Chorus
Ebe Stignani, soprano
Francis Poulenc, pianist/composer and Pierre Bernac, baritone
Griller String Quartet with Boris Boldovsky, piano
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Sevitzky, conductor
Italo Tajo, bass-baritone
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
London Quartet with Reginald Kell, clarinet
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Mariemma & Her Company of Spanish Dancers & Musicians
Maryla Jonas, piano
Mildah Polia, mezzo-soprano
Mischa Elman, violin
Nathan Milstein, violin
Paganini Quartet
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Richard Dyer-Bennett
Rita LaPlante, piano
Rosario & Antonio
Solomon (Cutner), piano
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, conductor
Thomas L. Thomas, baritone
Trieste Trio
Tung Kwong-Kwong, piano
Uday Shankar and his Hindu Ballet
Vienna Choir Boys
Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin, duo piano
1950-1951
Adele Addison, soprano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Charles Castleman, violin
Claudio Arrau, piano
de Paur’s Infantry Chorus
Dorothy Maynor, soprano
Dorothy Phillips, contralto
Elena Nikolaidi, contralto
First Piano Quartet
Griller String Quartet
Isaac Stern, violin
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Koussevitsky, conductor
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Izler Solomon, conductor
Iva Kitchell
Jacques Abram, piano
Jan Peerce, tenor
Jascha Heifetz, violin
José Iturbi, piano
Julian Olevsky, violin
Kurt Baum, tenor
Lily Pons, soprano
Luise Vosgerchian, piano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Marilyn Neeley, piano
Mischa Elman, violin
Nicole Henriot, piano
Robert Shaw Chorale
Sadler’s Wells Ballet (with Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes)
Solomon (Cutner), piano
Trapp Family Singers
Vienna Choir Boys
Wanda Paul, piano
Willy Frey, violin
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
1951-1952
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Cathalene Parker, mezzo-soprano
Clifford Curzon, piano
Die Fledermaus (featuring Patrice Munsel)
Dorothea Redfield Jump, cello
First Drama Quartette, Bernard Shaw’s “Don Juan in Hell” (with Charles Laughton and Agnes Moorhead)
First Piano Quartet
Friedrich Gulda, piano
Isabel Mourao, piano
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Josef Szigeti, violin
Larry Walz, piano
Marina Dorn, piano
Mata & Hari (Ruth Mata and Eugene Hari)
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Reginald Kell Chamber Players
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet
Solomon (Cutner), piano
Todd Duncan, baritone
Trapp Family Singers
Tung Kwong-Kwong, piano
Uday Shan-kar & Company of Dancers & Musicians
Victoria de Los Angeles, soprano
Virtuoso di Roma
Winifred Cecil, soprano
1952-1953
Adele Addison, soprano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Badura-Skoda, piano
Ballet Theatre (with Alicia Markova)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, conductor
Claudio Arrau, piano
Clifford Curzon, piano
Dancers of Bali (“with full Gamelan orchestra”)
Emelina Gentili, soprano
Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens
Ervin László, piano
Fania Chapiro, piano
Friends of Chamber Music , “L’Histoire de Soldat”
George Gershwin Festival, Lorin Maazel, conductor; Jesús María Sanromá, piano
Helen Dane, piano
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
José Limon Dance Company
Miklos Schwalb, piano
Mildred Miller, mezzo-soprano
Monique de la Bruchollerie, piano
Reginald Kell Chamber Players
Richard Dyer-Bennet
Richard Tucker, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Trapp Family Singers
Victoria de Los Angeles, soprano
Vienna Choir Boys
William Warfield, bass-baritone
1953-1954
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Azuma Kabuki Dancers
Bach Aria Group of New York with Jan Peerce, tenor and Eileen Farrell, soprano
Badura-Skoda, piano
Bertica Shulman, piano
Beveridge Webster, piano de Paur’s Infantry Chorus
Elena Nikolaidi, contralto
First Piano Quartet (“Popular Classics on 4 Steinway Grands”)
Isaac Stern, violin
Jean Graham, piano
José Limon Dance Company
Josef Szigeti, violin
Marais & Miranda
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Quartetto Italiano
Richard Dyer-Bennet
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sadler’s Wells Ballet (with Margot Fonteyn)
Sara Locke, piano
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Trapp Family Singers
Virgil Fox, organ
Virtuosi di Roma
Walter Gieseking, piano
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
1954-1955
Adele Addison, soprano
Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Edward Van Beinum, conductor
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Andrew Heath, piano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballet Theatre
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, conductor (replaced Wilhelm Furtwängler)
Boston University Chorus, Leopold Stokowski, conductor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
I Musici
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Jascha Heifetz, violin
London Festival Ballet
Marais & Miranda
Mata & Hari & Company
Obernkirchen Children’s Choir
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Quartetto Italiano (2 performances)
Robert Casadesus, piano
Robert Shaw Chorale
Roberta Peters, soprano
Solomon (Cutner), piano
Trapp Family Singers
Trieste Trio
Vienna Choir Boys
Walter Gieseking, piano
Zadel Skolovsky, piano
1955-1956
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Budapest String Quartet
Burl Ives
Claudio Arrau, piano
David Oistrakh, violin
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Emil Gilels, piano
I Musici
Joerg Demus, piano
Kabuki Dancers (at Plymouth Theatre)
Leon Fleisher, piano
Margaret Harshaw, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Nathan Milstein, violin
Obernkirchen Children’s Choir
Pearl Primus Dance Company
Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Robert Shaw Chorale
Sadler’s Wells Ballet (Boston premiere of John Cranko’s “The Lady and the Fool”)
Santa Cecilia Choir
Trapp Family Singers
Vienna Choir Boys
Virtuosi di Roma
Walter Gieseking, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
1956-1957
Adele Addison, soprano
American Ballet Theatre
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bach Aria Group, with Jan Peerce, tenor and Eileen Farrell, soprano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Budapest String Quartet
Camilla Williams & Lawrence Winters
Cossacks Chorus & Dancers
Destine Haitian Dance Company
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Gerald Moore, piano
Gerard Souzay, baritone
Golden Age Singers of London
Jose Greco and his Spanish Dancers
Leon Fleisher, piano
Lily Dumont, piano
Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault
Theatre Company, “Le Misanthrope”
Michael Rabin, violin
Ninette De Valois (lecture)
Old Vic Company (“Romeo & Juliet” and “Macbeth”)
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Quartetto Italiano
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Richard Dyer-Bennett
Royal Danish Ballet
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Ruth Posselt, violin and Luise Vosgerchian, piano
Victor Borge
Vienna Philharmonic, Carl Schuricht, conductor
Yugoslav Folk Ballet, Kolo
1957-1958
American Ballet Theatre
Andre Tchaikowsky, piano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Budapest String Quartet (2 performances)
Czech Philharmonic, Karel Ancerl, conductor
Dancers of Bali with Mario and Ngurah Raka
Dancers of India starring Shanta Rao
DePaur Opera Gala
Emil Gilels, piano
Gerard Souzay, baritone
Gina Bachauer, piano
Inbal
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Iva Kitchell (“The Illustrious Dance Satirist”)
Jose Greco & his Spanish Dancers
José Limon Dance Company
Marais & Miranda
Moiseyev Dance Company (at Boston Garden)
New York Pro Musica Antiqua
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Robert Casadesus, piano
Royal Ballet (with Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes)
The Black Watch (at Boston Garden)
Victor Borge, “Comedy in Music”
Vienna Choir Boys
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Zino Francescatti, violin
1958-1959
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Beryozka Russian Dance Company
Budapest String Quartet
Budapest String Quartet with Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conductor
Curtis String Quartet with Boris Goldovsky, piano
Emlyn Williams, “A Boy Growing Up”
Geoffrey Holder and Company
Glenn Gould, piano
Grenadier & Scots Guards
Iglesias Spanish Ballet
Isaac Stern, violin
Jose Greco & Spanish Dance Company
Julien Bryan (“Extraordinary color movies” from Soviet Russia)
Jussi Bjoerling, tenor
Mantovani and his Orchestra
Marian Anderson, contralto
Mary Martin (3 performances, with Luiz Bonfa, guitar)
Mieczyslaw Horszowksi, piano
Nathan Milstein, violin
National Symphony Orchestra, Howard Mitchell, conductor; Leontyne Price, soprano
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Old Vic (“Hamlet,” “Henry V” and “Twelfth Night;” casts included Judi Dench and John Neville)
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, duo piano
Quartetto Italiano
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Karl Muenchinger, conductor
Victor Borge
Vienna Academy Chorus
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Zara Doloukhanova, mezzo-soprano
1959-1960
Adele Addison, soprano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Theatre
Budapest String Quartet
Byron Janis, piano
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
David Oistrakh, violin
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Emil Gilels, piano
Festival Quartet
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
Gina Bachauer, piano
Griller String Quartet
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Iglesias Ballet Espanol
Inbal Dance Theatre of Israel
Jose Greco & Spanish Dancers
José Limon Dance Company
Juilliard String Quartet
Lamoureux Orchestra, Igor Markevich, conductor
Marian Anderson, contralto
Moscow State Symphony, Kirill Kondrashin, conductor,
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Polish State Folk Ballet
Richard Dyer-Bennet
Robert Casadesus, piano
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Yehudi Menuhin, violin and Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
Zino Francescatti, violin (2 performances)
1960-1961
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Boleslaw Woytowicz, piano
Budapest String Quartet
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Claudio Arrau, piano
Coldstream Guards & Cameron Highlanders
Destine Haitian Dance Company
Dmitri Bashkirov, piano
Glenn Gould, piano
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
I Solisti di Zagreb
Isaac Stern, violin
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Jan Peerce, tenor
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Julian Bream, guitar
Leonid Kogan, violin
Ludwig Olshansky, piano
Marais & Miranda
Maureen Forrester, contralto
Mazowsze Polish Song & Dance Company
Moiseyev Dance Company (at Boston Garden)
Obernkirchen Children’s Choir
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Quartetto Italiano
Richard Dyer-Bennet
Robert Shaw Chorale
Royal Ballet (with Margot Fonteyn; at Boston Garden)
Sviatoslav Richter, piano (December 11, Boston recital debut)
Sviatoslav Richter, piano (December 13)
Van Cliburn, piano
Victor Borge
Warsaw Philharmonic, Witold Rowicki, conductor; Wanda Wilkominska, violin
Ximenez-Vargas Ballet Español
Zachary Solov Ballet Company
1961-1962
Amadeus Quartet
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bach Aria Group, with Jan Peerce, tenor and Eileen Farrell, soprano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Birgit Nilsson, soprano
Boleslaw Woytowicz, piano
Budapest String Quartet
Budapest String Quartet with Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano
Byron Janis, piano
Caledonio Romero and sons
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Soprano Leontyne Price made her Boston recital debut with the Celebrity Series in a benefit performance for Washington National Cathedral in 1971 – the first of her 10 Celebrity Series recitals. At the Walter Pierce Tribute Dinner in 1998 Ms. Price charmed attendees with an impromptu version of “This Little Light of Mine.”
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
Detroit Symphony, Paul Paray, conductor; Glenn Gould, piano
Emil Gilels, piano
Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
Iglesias Spanish Ballet
Leningrad Kirov Ballet (at Boston Garden)
Lorin Hollander, piano
Mazowsze Polish Song & Dance Company
Michael MacLiammoir, “The Importance of Being Oscar”
Nathan Milstein, violin
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Szymon Goldberg, conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor; Lorin Hollander, piano
Roger Wagner Chorale
Rudolf Serkin, piano
The Old Vic Company, “Romeo and Juliet” (directed by Franco Zefirelli)
Van Cliburn, piano
Victor Borge
Zara Doloukhanova, mezzo-soprano
1962-1963
Adele Addison, soprano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, duo pianists
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bolshoi Ballet (with Maya Plisetskaya)
Boris Gutnikov, violin
Budapest String Quartet
Budapest String Quartet with Benar Heifetz, cello
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor; Gina Bachauer, piano
David Oistrakh, violin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Erica Morini, violin
Foo Hsing Theatre from the Chinese Republic
Jean-Marie Darre, piano
Joan Sutherland, soprano
Leningrad Philharmonic (Eugen Mravinsky, conductor; part of U.S./Soviet cultural exchange program)
Maurice Chevalier
NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, conductor; Philippe Entremont, piano
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra,
Szymon Goldberg, conductor and violin
Orchestre National de France,
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor;
Jeanne-Marie Darre, piano
Poznan Choir
Royal Ballet (with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn)
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Victor Borge
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Octet
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
1963-1964
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
Birgit Nilsson, soprano
Budapest String Quartet
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Circle in the Square, Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milkwood”
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
David Oistrakh, violin
Gina Bachauer, piano
Glenn Gould, piano
Isaac Stern, violin
John Browning, piano
John Ogdon, piano
Jose Greco & his Spanish Dancers
Maureen Forrester, contralto
Mazowsze Polish Song & Dance Company
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai, conductor
Paganini Quartet with William Primrose, viola
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,
William Steinberg, conductor;
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Robert Shaw Chorale
Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet (at Donnelly Memorial Theater)
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
The Black Watch (at Boston Garden)
Van Cliburn, piano
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
Virtuosi di Roma
1964-1965
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, conductor
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Branko Krsmanovich Chorus of Jugoslavia
Budapest String Quartet
Byron Janis, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
Daniel Barenboim, piano (Boston recital debut; replaced Leon Fleisher)
Hague Philharmonic, Willem van Oterloo, conductor
Hermann Prey, baritone
I Solisti di Zagreb
Igor Stravinsky conducts Robert Craft and Orchestra
Jose Greco and his Spanish Dancers
José Limon Dance Company
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute
Leningrad Kirov Ballet, “Swan Lake”
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Lorin Hollander, piano
Mantovani and his Orchestra
Marian Anderson, contralto
Moiseyev Dance Company
Nathan Milstein, violin
Royal Ballet (with Margot Fonteyn)
Royal Inniskilling Fusilliers, Royal Ulster Rifles, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Women’s Royal Army Corps, “Pomp and Ceremony” (at Boston Garden)
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Van Cliburn, piano
Vienna Choir Boys
Warsaw Philharmonic, Witold Rowicki, conductor
1965-1966
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bolshoi Ballet
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Max Rudolf, conductor; Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
Czech Philharmonic, Karel Ancerl, conductor
David Oistrakh, violin
Gina Bachauer, piano
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Houston Symphony, Sir John Barbirolli, conductor; Ralph Holmes, violin
Isaac Stern, violin
Jose Greco & his Gypsies
Juilliard String Quartet
Loewenguth Quartet
Marilyn Horne, contralto
Moscow Philharmonic, Kiril Kondrashin, conductor; Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Szymon Goldberg, conductor
Paganini Quartet
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor; Eugene Istomin, piano
Royal Danish Ballet
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Van Cliburn, piano
Victor Borge with Leonid Hambro
Vienna Octet
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
1966-1967
Alfred Brendel, piano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
Bristol Old Vic, “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” (cast included Jane Asher)
Budapest String Quartet
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
Detroit Symphony, Sixten Ehrling, conductor; Malcolm Frager, piano
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Emil Gilels, piano
Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose Trio
Ferrante & Teicher
Hermann Prey, baritone
John Williams, guitar
Jose Greco Spanish Dance Company with Nana Lorca
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute
Manitas de Plata, guitar
Mantovani & his Concert Orchestra
Martha Graham Dance Company
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, conductor; Stephen Bishop, piano
Montserrat Caballe, soprano
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai, conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello (1st Boston performance of Britten’s Cello Sonata in C)
Music from Marlboro, Rudolf Serkin, artistic director
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Obernkirchen Children’s Choir
Quartetto Italiano
Rosalyn Tureck, piano (All-Bach program)
Royal Ballet, “Romero & Juliet,” “Cinderella,” “Paradise Lost”
Royal Highland Fusiliers
Rudolf Serkin, piano (Inaugural Aaron Richmond Scholarship Fund Concert)
Ukranian Dance Company
Van Cliburn, piano
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, Eduard Strauss II, conductor; Dagmar Koller, vocalist
Zino Francescatti, violin and Robert Casadesus, piano
1967-1968
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid (guest artist Rosario)
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bach Aria Group
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Max Rudolf, conductor; Lili Kraus, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
David Oistrakh, violin
Guarneri String Quartet
I Solisti di Zagreb, Igor Kuljeric, conductor; Jelka Stanic, violin
Jose Greco and his Spanish Ballet with Nana Lorca
Judith Raskin, soprano
Juilliard String Quartet
L’Orchestre National de France, Maurice Le Roux, conductor
Mantovani and his Concert Orchestra
Music from Marlboro, Benita Valente, soprano; Flenda Maurice, mezzo-soprano; Jon Humphrey, tenor; Donald Weilerstein, violinist; Robert Sylvester, cellist; Luis Batlle, piano; Paula Sylvester, flute
Music from Marlboro, Murray Perahia, pianist; Hiroko Yajima, violinist; Leslie Parnas, cellist; Elsa Ludewig, clarinet
Music from Marlboro, Pina Carmirelli, John Toth, violins; Phillip Naegele, Caroline Levine, violas; Fortunato Arico, Dorothy Reichenberger, cellos
Regimental Band of the Welsh Guards and the Pipes, drums and dancers of the Scots Guards
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Russian Festival of Music & Dance
Sabicas, guitar
Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet (with Maya Plisetkaya)
Van Cliburn, piano
Victor Borge with Leonid Hambro
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Boehm, conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
1968-1969
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Bennett Lerner, piano
Camerata Singers
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Emil Gilels, piano
Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose Trio
Gina Bachauer, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
Hungarian Quartet
Israel Chamber Orchestra, Gary Bertini, conductor
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
Jose Greco & his Spanish Ballet with Maria Soto and Luis Rivera
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar
Leonid Kogan, violin
Los Indios Tabajaras, duo guitar
Mantovani & his Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, conductor
Misha Dichter, piano
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Orchestre de Paris, Charles Munch, conductor
Oscar Ghiglia, guitar
P.D.Q. Bach with Professor Peter Schikele
Paul Mauriat & his Orchestra
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Ravi Shankar
Romanian Folk Ballet
Royal Ballet (with guest artists Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn)
Rudolf Serkin, piano
The Uday Shankar Dancers & Musicians
Toronto Symphony, Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Van Cliburn, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Yehudi Menuhin, violin and Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
1969-1970
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali, conductor
Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
André Watts, piano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Arthur MacKenzie, piano
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Beaux Arts String Quartet
British Tournament & Tatoo (at Boston Garden)
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, Louis Lane, conductor
David Oistrakh, violin
Gary Graffman, piano
Hermann Prey, baritone
Irina Arkhipova, mezzo-soprano
Jacqueline du Pré, cello and Daniel Barenboim, piano
Joni Mitchell
Jose Greco & his Dancers with Nana Lorca’s Flamenco Dance Theatre
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute
Lenox Quartet
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn, conductor
Mantovani & his Orchestra
Melos Ensemble
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Misha Dichter, piano
Moscow Philharmonic, Kiril Kondrashin, conductor
Nehama Lifschitz
Parachute Regiment Spectacular
Peter Pears, tenor and Benjamin Britten, piano
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Sabicas, guitar
Stuttgart Ballet, “Eugene Onegin,” “The Taming of the Shrew”
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
The Romeros
Van Cliburn, piano
Victor Borge
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
1970-1971
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Australian Ballet with Rudolf Nureyev
Beaux Arts Trio of New York
Beverly Sills, soprano
Byron Janis, piano
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Dame Judith Anderson as Hamlet
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Emil Gilels, piano
Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Gershon Kingsley’s First Moog Quartet
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
I Solisti di Zagreb with Henryk Szeryng, violin
John Williams, guitar
Jose Greco & his Dancers with Nana Lorca’s Flamenco Dance Theatre
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute
Leontyne Price, soprano (Benefit for Washington National Cathedral)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor
Martha Graham Dance Company
Mazowsze Polish Song & Dance Company
Menuhin Festival Orchestra of London, Yehudi Menuhin, conductor and violin
Moiseyev Dance Company
Paul Mauriat & his Orchestra
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Siberian Dancers and Singers of Omsk
Stuttgart Ballet
The National Ballet, “Cinderella” (with Margot Fonteyn)
Van Cliburn, piano
Viktor Tretyakov, violin
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and Itzhak Perlman, violin
Yvonne Loriod & Olivier Messiaen, duo piano
Zara Doloukhanova, soprano
1971-1972
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
André Watts, piano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, conductor
Daniel Barenboim, piano and Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Dave Brubeck Trio & Gerry Mulligan
Drolc String Quartet
Gerard Souzay, baritone
Guarneri String Quartet
Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Henryk Szeryng, violin
James Whitmore in “Will Rogers U.S.A.”
John Williams, guitar
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, “Tommy”
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn, conductor; Kyung Wha Chung, violin
Lorin Hollander, piano
Marilyn Horne, contralto
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello and Vasso Devetzi, piano
Murray Louis Dance Company
Music from Marlboro, Rudolf Serkin, artistic director (3 performances)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Szymon Goldberg, conductor
New Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Lorin Maazel, conductor
New York Pro Musica
Nikolais Dance Company
Osipov Balalaika Orchestra (with Stars of the Bolshoi Opera and Bolshoi Ballet)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ravi Shankar
Raymond Lewenthal, piano
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sergio & Eduardo Abreu, duo guitar
The National Ballet, “The Sleeping Beauty” (with Margot Fonteyn)
The Sierra Leone National Dance Company
Van Cliburn, piano
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips, conductor
Wanda Wilkomirska, violin
1972-1973
Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Beryozka Dance Company of Moscow
Beverly Sills, soprano
Boston Symphony Chamber Players with Phyllis Curtin, soprano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor, Murray Perahia, piano
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor Dancers of Mali (National Ensemble of the Republic of Mali)
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Dave & Darius Brubeck
Dukla Ukranian Dance Company
Eugene Istomin, piano
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Guarneri String Quartet with Gary Graffman, piano
Guarneri String Quartet with Peter Serkin, piano
Guarneri String Quartet with Rudolf Serkin, piano
Isaac Stern, violin
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute (2 performances)
Leontyne Price, soprano
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn, conductor
Martha Graham Dance Company
Mazowsze Polish Song & Dance Company
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Leopold Hager, conductor; Lili Kraus, piano
Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor
National Ballet of Canada with Rudolf Nureyev, “Swan Lake”
New York Pro Musica, “An Entertainment for Elizabeth”
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempke, conductor; Teiko Maehashi, violin
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and Itzhak Perlman, violin
1973-1974
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alirio Diaz, guitar
Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater
Amadeus Quartet
Ambakaila Trinidad Carnival Ballet and Steel Band
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Anthony Newman, harpsichord
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Bette Davis In Person and On Film
Bolshoi Ballet
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor and violin
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Jaimie Laredo, violin
Christopher Parkening, guitar
the first Aaron Richmond Scholarship Fund Concert in 1966.Serkin is pictured here early in his career.
Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Dave & Darius Brubeck
David Oistrakh, violin
English Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
Evelyn Lear, soprano and Thomas Stewart, baritone
Frans Brueggen, recorder and Alan Curtis, harpsichord
Hal Holbrook as “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute and Robert Veyron-Lacroix, keyboard
John Browning, piano
Julian Bream, guitar and lute (2 performances)
Leningrad Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Maria Callas, soprano and Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor
Martha Graham Dance Company
Modern Jazz Quartet and Dizzy Gillespie
National Ballet of Canada, Rudolf Nureyev, guest artist
National Chinese Opera Theatre
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
New York Pro Musica
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sabicas, guitar
Tokyo String Quartet
Van Cliburn, piano
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, Walter Goldschmidt, conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Yehudi Menuhin, violin and Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
1974-1975
Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater
André-Michel Schub, piano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Arkady Sevidov, piano
Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
Bella Rudenko, soprano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Birgit Nilsson, soprano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (January 18)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with André Watts (April 19)
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Cleveland Quartet
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra (orchestra conducted by Mercer Ellington following Duke’s death)
Emil Gilels, piano
Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose Trio
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano and Mstislav Rostropovich, piano
Gina Bachauer, piano
Hermann Prey, baritone
I Solisti di Zagreb with Henryk Szeryng, violin
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur, conductor
Leontyne Price, soprano
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor; Etsuko Tazaki, piano
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Ludmila Zykina & the Moscow Balalaika Orchestra
Martha Graham Dance Company
Maurice André & the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra
Moiseyev Dance Company
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai, conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Peter Pears, tenor and Murray Perahia, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Quartetto Italiano
Rajko Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra & Dancers
Royal Swedish Ballet, “Swan Lake”
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Slask Polish Song & Dance Company
Sour Cream (Frans Brueggen, Walter Van Hauwe, Kees Boeke, recorders)
Soviet Georgian Dancers, Tbilisi Polyphonic Choir and “Gordela”
Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Alain Lombard, conductor; Jean-Bernard Pommier, piano
The Agnes DeMille Heritage Dance Theatre
Toho String Orchestra, Tadaaki Oyaka, conductor
1975-1976
Alirio Diaz, guitar
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Anna Russell Returns
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Beverly Sills, soprano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (with Peter Pears, tenor)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (with Pinchas Zukerman, violin)
Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan
Dave & Darius Brubeck
Detroit Symphony, Aldo Ceccato, conductor; Itzhak Perlman, violin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Frans Brueggen, baroque flute and recorder and Alan Curtis, harpsichord
Guarneri String Quartet
Hal Holbrook as “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Herbie Mann & The Family of Mann
Isaac Stern, violin and Pinchas Zukerman, violin/viola
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton, duo piano
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute and Robert Veyron-Lacroix, harpsichord and piano
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor
Martha Graham Dance Company
National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, Mario Bernardi, conductor; Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sixten Ehrling, conductor; Leo Berlin, violin
Vienna Choir Boys
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Waverly Consort, Michael Jaffee, director
1976-1977
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Aulos Wind Quintet with Rudolf Serkin, piano
Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor; Peter Serkin and Stephanie Brown, pianos
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Dave & Darius Brubeck
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Dora Statou’s Greek Dances
Frans Brueggen, recorders and Alan Curtis, harpsichord
Guarneri String Quartet
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor
Itzhak Perlman, violin (All-Bach program)
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute and John Steele Ritter, harpsichord
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute (2 performances)
Lazar Berman, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Michael Lorimer, guitar
Murray Perahia, piano
Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Osipov Balalaika Orchestra of Moscow with Stars of the Bolshoi, Kirov and Kiev Theatres
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rajkó Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra and Dancers
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Russian Festival of Music and Dance
Salzburg Marionette Theatre
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor and solo pianist with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Waverly Consort, Michael Jaffee, director (3 performances)
1977-1978
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Amadeus Quartet
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Anna Russell
Aulos Wind Quintet
Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, conductor
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Frans Brueggen, recorder and Alan Curtis, harpsichord
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Isaac Stern, violin
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Joffrey Ballet
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar and lute
Jury’s Irish Cabaret
Lazar Berman, piano
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maurice André, trumpet
National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor and cello soloist
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sir Michael Redgrave in “Shakespeare’s People”
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet
Twyla Tharp Dance
Victoria de Los Angeles, soprano
Vienna Choir Boys
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and Itzhak Perlman, violin
Waverly Consort, “Cantigas de Santa Maria”
1978-1979
Alexandre Lagoya, guitar
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Aulos Wind Quintet
Bob Greene’s The World of Jelly Roll Morton
Brandenburg Ensemble,
Alexander Schneider, conductor
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Concentus Musicus, Vienna
Festival of Russian Dance
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Isaac Stern, violin
Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman
James Galway & the New Irish Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Joffrey Ballet
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream and John Williams, guitarists
Kuijken Quartet
Moscow Philharmonic, Dmitri Kitaenko, conductor
Murray Perahia, piano
National Choir of Israel − Rinat
New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor
The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rajko Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra & Dancers
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Russian Festival of Music & Dance
Shirley Verrett, soprano
Steven De Groote, piano
Trinidad Folk Festival
Vienna Choir Boys
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano & English Chamber Orchestra
Waverly Consort
1979-1980
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Anna Russell
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, conductor and the New England Conservatory Chorus
Boston Camerata with Frans Brueggen, recorder
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan
Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba
Dave Brubeck (band featured Jerry Bergonzi, tenor saxophone)
Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose Trio
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
I Solisti di Zagreb with James Galway, flute
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (6 performances; cycle of Beethoven quartets)
Jury’s Irish Cabaret
Laura Dean Dancers & Musicians
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Moscow Pops
Narciso Yepes, guitar
Nathan Milstein, violin
Peter Serkin, piano
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ravi Shankar
Swingle II
The King’s Singers
The Waverly Waits, Michael Jaffee, director
Turan-Mirza Kamal, guitar
Victoria de Los Angeles, soprano
Vienna Choir Boys
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and Lynn Harrell, cello
Waverly Consort
1980-1981
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona, conductor; Leon Fleisher, piano (Ravel, Concerto for Left Hand)
Bella Davidovich, piano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor with Cologne Radio Chorus
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Emanuel Ax, Young Uck Kim, Yo-Yo Ma Trio
English Chamber Orchestra, Murray Perahia, piano
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Gaechinger Kantorei of Stuttgart and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Rilling, conductor (J.S. Bach B-Minor Mass)
Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Kurt Masur, conductor
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Isaac Stern, violin
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Ivan Moravec, piano
James Galway, flute
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (2 performances)
Julian Bream, guitar
Kuijken Quartet
Leontyne Price, soprano
Liona Boyd, guitar
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor
L’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson, conductor; Philippe Entremont, piano
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maurice André the Wuerttemberg
Chamber Orchestra, Jorg Faerber, conductor
Murray Perahia, piano
National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor
P.D.Q. Bach
Pat Carroll, “Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein”
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Pinchas Zukerman, violin/viola
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Tashi
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Viennese Gala, Tonkuenstler Orchestra of Vienna, Franz Allers, conductor; Elizabeth Hynes, soprano
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Waverly Consort
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
Youri Egorov, piano
1981-1982
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Arirang Korean Folk Festival
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Cleveland Quartet
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
Elly Ameling, soprano
Elmar Oliveira, violin
Gabrieli String Quartet
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Guarneri String Quartet (3 performances)
Hague Philharmonic, Hans Vonk, conductor; Elly Ameling, soprano
Hermann Baumann, french horn
I Solisti di Zagreb with André Bernard, trumpet
Itzhak Perlman, violin
James Galway, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (2 performances)
Jury’s Irish Cabaret
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Martha Argerich, piano
Martha Graham Dance Company
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Minnesota Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor; Heinz Holliger, oboe and Ursula Holliger, harp
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Nathan Milstein, violin
Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Peter Schreier, tenor
Peter Serkin, piano
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Polish Chamber Orchestra, Jersy Maksymiuk, conductor
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rajko Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra & Dancers
Ravi Shankar
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Shirley Verrett, soprano
Shlomo Mintz, violin
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin; Erie Mills, soprano
Tafelmusik & Frans Brueggen
The Chieftains
Vienna Choir Boys
Virtuosi di Roma
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Waverly Consort (2 performances)
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1982-1983
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown, leader and violin solist
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
André-Michel Schub, piano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Anna Russell
Annie Fischer, piano
Berlin Philharmonic Octet
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Carlos Prieto, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Emanuel Ax, piano
Festival of the Nile
Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Kurt Masur, conductor; Annerose Schmidt, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Heinz Holliger, oboe and John Steele Ritter, piano
Irish Chamber Orchestra and James Galway, flute
Isaac Stern, violin
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (3 performances)
Julian Bream, guitar
Kuijken Trio
Leontyne Price, soprano
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor (2 performances)
Melos Quartet
Murray Perahia, piano
P.D.Q. Bach
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Salvatore Accardo, violin
The Chieftains
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Waverly Consort, “Italia Mia”
Waverly Consort, “Spanish Music in the Age of Exploration”
Waverly Consort, “The Christmas Story”
Waverly Consort, “Welcome Sweet Pleasure”
Wiener Strauss-Capelle
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
1983-1984
Ballet Nacional Español
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona, conductor
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Eugen Jochum, conductor
Brandenburg Ensemble,
Alexander Schneider, conductor
Burl Ives
Cleveland Quartet
Emanuel Ax, Young Uck Kim, Yo-Yo Ma Trio
English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Gidon Kremer, violin
Frans Brueggen, recorders; Anner Bylsma, baroque cello; John Gibbons, harpsichord
Gabrieli String Quartet
Gaechinger Kantorei of Stuttgart and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra,
Helmut Rilling, conductor (J.S. Bach St. John Passion)
Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian Trio
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
Isaac Stern, violin
Israel Chamber Orchestra, David Shallon, conductor; Leonard Rose, cello
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Ivan Moravec, piano
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (3 performances)
Jury’s Irish Cabaret
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Michala Petri Trio
Mummenschanz
Narciso Yepes, guitar
New Swingle Singers
Orchestre National de France, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Pinchas Zukerman, violin/viola
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Rudolf Serkin, piano
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart, conductor
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
The Chieftains
The King’s Singers
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Octet
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Warsaw Philharmonic, Kazimierz Kord, conductor; Claudio Arrau, piano
Waverly Consort (2 performances)
1984-1985
Annie Fischer, piano
Bella Davidovich, piano
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Canadian Brass
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado, conductor ; Hildegard Behrens, soprano
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Emanuel Ax, piano
Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Kurt Masur, conductor
Gidon Kremer, Daniel Phillips, Kim Kashkashian, Yo-Yo Ma
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Heinz Holliger, oboe
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Hubbard Street Dance Company
Isaac Stern, violin
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (2 performances)
Julian Bream, guitar
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio & Hermann Baumann, French horn
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Kuijken Quartet
Leontyne Price, soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt, conductor
Marcel Marceau
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Hans Graf, conductor
Mummenschanz
P.D.Q. Bach
Peter Serkin, piano (2 performances; complete Beethoven sonatas)
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Riccardo Chailly, conductor ; Shlomo Mintz, violin
Rotterdam Philharmonic, James Conlon, music director
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, conductor; André Watts, piano
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Russell Sherman, piano
The Chieftains
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet with Renata Scotto, soprano
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1985-1986
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
André Watts, piano
Anna Russell
Annie Fischer, piano
Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Canadian Brass
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor (Program featured Penderecki’s “Polish Requiem”)
Fires of London, Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor
Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Kurt Masur, conductor
Guarneri String Quartet (2 performances)
Hermann Prey, baritone
Ivo Pogerelich, piano
James Galway & the National Arts Centre Orchestra
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Jessye Norman, soprano
Joan Sutherland, soprano
John Williams, guitar
Juilliard String Quartet (Complete Beethoven Quartets; 6 performances)
Kalidoskopio of Greece
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maurice André, trumpet
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, conductor; Isaac Stern, violin
Murray Perahia, piano
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, “Peter Wright’s The Sleeping Beauty”
Stars from the D’Oyly Carte Opera
The Chieftains with special guest star
Burgess Meredith
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philippe Entremont, conductor/pianist
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
Waverly Consort
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Young-Uck Kim, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
1986-1987
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, director
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Amadeus Quartet
Anner Bylsma, cello and Malcolm Bilson, piano
Bejart Ballet of the 20th Century
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor (replaced Herbert von Karajan)
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Cambridge Buskers
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Lorin Maazel, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Elly Ameling, soprano
Festival of India
Guarneri String Quartet
Heinz Holliger, oboe and Christiane Jaccottet, harpsichord
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
Itzhak Perlman, violin
James Galway, flute and Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
José Feghali, piano
Juilliard String Quartet (3 performances)
Julian Bream, guitar
Katia and Marielle Labeque, duo piano
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Leontyne Price, soprano
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Moiseyev Dance Company
Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble
Pinchas Zukerman, violin/viola
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Russell Sherman, piano
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Steve Reich and Musicians
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, director & harpsichord
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, Kurt Woess, conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd with special guest Richard Stoltzman, clarinet (Program inlcuded Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto)
Wynton Marsalis & the Eastman Wind Ensemble
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1987-1988
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
André Watts, piano
Annie Fischer, piano
Boston Camerata, “Orfeo”
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor; Peter Serkin, piano
Canadian Brass
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado, conductor ; Cecile Licad, piano
Chinese Children’s Palace of Hangzhou
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor ; Daniel Majeske, violin
Dresden Staatskapelle, Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma
Emerson String Quartet (world premiere of John Harbison’s String Quartet no. 2)
English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate, conductor, Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Frans Brueggen, recorder; Anner Bylsma, baroque cello; Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Jean Redpath & the Boys of The Lough
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Jessye Norman, soprano
Juilliard String Quartet (3 performances)
Kathleen Battle, soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Mummenschanz
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Radu Lupu & Murray Perahia, duo piano
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, “Begin Sweet World” (guest artist, Eddie Gomez, bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn, conductor
Rudolf Nureyev & Friends
The Chieftains with the Nelson Village Dancers
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet
Twyla Tharp Dance
Vienna Choir Boys
Yo-Yo Ma, cello (J.S. Bach, Suites for Unaccompanied Cello)
1988-1989
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown, director; Nobuko Imai, viola
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman, conductor; James Galway, flute
Beaux Arts Trio
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Cambridge Buskers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Claudio Arrau, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Emanuel Ax, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Gidon Kremer, violin
Guarneri String Quartet
I Musici
Itzhak Perlman, violin
James Galway, flute
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet (2 performances)
Julian Bream, guitar
Kazhuhito Yamashita, guitar
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Leontyne Price, soprano
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Moiseyev Dance Company
Montserrat Caballe, soprano
Moscow Classical Ballet
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
Murray Perahia, piano
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Alfred Brendel, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Salzburg Marionette Theatre
San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor; Heinz Holliger, oboe
Shanghai Acrobats & Magicians
Shura Cherkassky, piano
The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach and Semi-Pro Musica Antiqua
The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists, (Handel’s “Israel in Egypt”)
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, Alfred Eschwe, conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Georges Pretre, conductor
Vladimir Feltsman, piano
William Bolcom and Joan Morris
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
1989-1990
Alexandrov Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Annie Fischer, piano
Anthony & Joseph Paratore, duo piano
Beaux Arts Trio
Bolshoi Ballet Academy
Brandenburg Ensemble,
Alexander Schneider, conductor
Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir
Canadian Brass
The Emerson String Quartet made their Celebrity Series debut in 1987, with a concert that featured the world premiere of John Harbison’s String Quartet No. 2. (Clockwise: violist
Lawrence Dutton; violinist
Eugene Drucker; cellist David Finckel; and violinist Philip Setzer, here pictured in 1992.)
Christian Steiner / Celebrity Series Archives
Carlos Montoya, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor ; Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Don Cossacks State Academic Ansemble of Rostov, U.S.S.R.
Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaimie Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma
Guarneri String Quartet
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Jean Redpath with Lisa Neustadt and the Angel Band
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Jessye Norman, soprano (with Dan Saunders, piano and Pepe Romero, guitar)
Juilliard String Quartet (Complete Beethoven Quartets; 6 performances)
Kathleen Battle, soprano
KODO Drummers
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Martha Graham Dance Company
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov, conductor and violin; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Mummenschanz
Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor; Heinz Holliger, oboe and Ursula Holliger, harp Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brueggen, conductor
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Armin Jordan, music director; Martha Argerich, piano
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit, conductor; Isaac Stern, violin
Peter Serkin, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Richard Goode, piano; Lucy Stoltzman, violin
Russell Sherman, piano
Samuel Ramey, bass
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, director and harpsichord
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1990-1991
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andreyev Balalaika Orchestra
Beaux Arts Trio
Bolshoi Ballet
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor; Andras Schiff and Peter Serkin, pianos
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor ; Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Emerson String Quartet
English Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
Guarneri String Quartet
Horacio Gutierrez, piano
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Maxim Vengeron, violin
Itzhak Perlman, violin and Pinchas Zukerman, violin and viola
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute and John Steele Ritter, piano
Joshua Bell, violin
Juilliard String Quartet
Juilliard String Quartet with Michael Tree, viola
Koyaanisqatsi/Live! (music by Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble)
Leontyne Price, soprano
Lezginka State Ensemble of Folk Dance
London Classical Players, Roger Norrington, conductor
Moscow Soloists, Yuri Bashmet, director and viola
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Hans Graf, music director; Ernst Kovacic, violin
Murray Perahia, piano
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor; Janet See, flute
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Jard van Nes, mezzo-soprano; Goesta Winbergh, tenor
Shanghai Acrobats
Shirley Verrett, soprano
Shura Cherkassky, piano
The Chieftains with James Galway, flute
Tokyo String Quartet
USSR State Symphony, Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Victor Borge
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Yo-Yo Ma, cello (J.S. Bach, Suites for Unaccompanied Cello)
1991-1992
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano, “Homage to Rossini”
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor ; Cleveland Orchestra String Quartet
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Dresden Staatskapelle, André Previn, conductor
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaimie Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
Itzhak Perlman, violin
James Galway, flute
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
John Williams, guitar
Juilliard String Quartet (2 performances)
Julian Bream, lute and guitar
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Michael Gielen, conductor; Christian Tetzlaff, violin and Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Kirov Ballet
KODO Drummers
Kronos Quartet
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, conductor, “The Fairy Queen”
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Midori, violin
Moiseyev Dance Company
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor; Wendy Warner, cello
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brueggen, conductor
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Radu Lupu, piano
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Libor Pesek, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano
The Chieftains with the Aer Lingus Pipe Band
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1992-1993
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Angelina Réaux, soprano, “I Am An American, Kurt Weill on Broadway” (Rob Kapilow, piano)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Benefit Street (Emerging Artists Series)
Benjamin Pasternak, piano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Alexander Schneider, conductor
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi, conductor; Edith Wiens, soprano
Canadian Brass
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Cleo Laine & John Dankworth Quartet
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Cleveland Quartet
Emanuel Ax, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Eugen Indijc, piano
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko, conductor; Cho-Liang Chin, violin
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Jessye Norman, soprano
Juilliard String Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, David Berger, conductor
Lorraine Hunt, mezzo-soprano (Emerging Artists Series)
Lynn Redgrave, “Shakespeare For My Father”
Moura Lympany, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Red Star, Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Russell Sherman, piano
Sanford Sylvan, baritone and Stephanie Friedman, mezzo-soprano
Shanghai Acrobats and Dance Theatre, “Parade of Dynasties”
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor
The Chieftains with the Belfast Harp Orchestra
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Tian Ying, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Tokyo String Quartet
Twyla Tharp & Mikhail Baryshnikov, “Cutting Up”
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Winter Solstice Concerts with Philip Aaberg, Barbara Higbie and the Modern Mandolin Quartet
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1993-1994
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
An Evening with Art Garfunkel
Anthony & Joseph Paratore, duo piano
Beaux Arts Trio (Complete Beethoven piano trios, 3 performances)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev, conductor
Boston Composers String Quartet (Emerging Artists Series)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Jaimie Laredo, conductor
Chanticleer
Christopher Taylor, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Daniel McKelway, clarinet (Emerging Artist Series)
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Ivan Moravec, piano
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
John Williams, guitar
Joshua Bell, piano
Judy Collins
Juilliard String Quartet (2 performances)
Kathleen Battle, soprano
Kronos Quartet
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur, conductor
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Maria Tipo, piano
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Midori, violin
Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart, conductor; Vadim Repin, violin
Mitsuko Shirai, mezzo-soprano
New York City Ballet Principal Dancers, “A Tribute to Balanchine”
Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Jean-Phillippe Collard, piano
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Radu Lupu, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Richard Goode, piano
San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Tango X 2
The Chieftains with Michael Flatley
The King’s Singers
Tokyo String Quartet with Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Twyla Tharp Dance
Victor Borge, “Comedy in Music”
Vienna Choir Boys, Chorus Viennensis, and Brandenburg Collegium
Wynton Marsalis Septet
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
1994-1995
Abbey Simon, piano
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Alban Berg Quartet
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
American Indian Dance Theatre
Andras Schiff, piano
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Anonymous 4, “On Yoolis Night”
Beaux Arts Trio
Century Orchestra Osaka, Uri Segal, conductor ; Peter Frankl, piano
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dominique Labelle, soprano (Emerging Artists Series)
Emanuel Ax and Peter Serkin, duo piano
Emanuel Ax, piano; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Pamela Frank, violin; Paul Meyer, clarinet; Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Emerson String Quartet
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
George Shearing & Richard Stoltzman
Guarneri String Quartet
HaeSun Paik, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Hilliard Ensemble
Houston Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin
Isaac Stern, violin and Yefim Bronfman, piano
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Midori, violin
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
KODO Drummers
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Mel Torme, “Sing, Sing, Sing”
Moura Lympany, piano
Newport Jazz Festival on Tour (with Jon Faddis, Clark Terry, Lew Tabakin and Alan Dawson)
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brueggen, conductor; Cyndia Sieden, soprano
Peter Serkin, piano
Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
Philip Glass Ensemble, “La Belle et La Bête”
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Rosemary Clooney
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Maria João Pires, piano
Simone Pedroni, piano Stomp!
The Chieftains with Marianne Faithfull
Vienna Choir Boys
Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
Zheng-Rong Wang, violin (Emerging Artists Series)
1995-1996
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
André Watts, piano
Anonymous 4, “Miracles of Sant’Iago”
Atlantic Brass Quintet (Emerging Artists Series)
Beaux Arts Trio
Boca Livre (Jazz at DeCordova)
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Peter Feranec, conductor; Boris Berezovski, piano
Boston Camerata with Schola Cantorum of Boston and Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, “Simple Gifts”
Boys Choir of Harlem
Brandenburg Ensemble, Jaimie Laredo, conductor
Canadian Brass
Chanticleer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Christian McBride Quartet (Jazz at DeCordova)
Christòpheren Nomura, baritone (Emerging Artists Series)
Cyrus Chesnut Trio (Jazz at DeCordova)
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Green Eggs & Ham/Gertrude McFuzz”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Adventures in Music and Sound!” (at Museum of Fine Arts)
Guarneri String Quartet
Horacio Gutierrez, piano
I Musici
Itzhak Perlman, violin
James Galway, flute
Jessye Norman, soprano
Juilliard String Quartet
Labor Day Jazz Fest: Matt Glaser, Cercie Miller, Either/Orchestra (Jazz at DeCordova)
Leontyne Price, soprano
Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (Jazz at DeCordova)
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Martha Graham Dance Company
Max Levinson, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Menahem Pressler, piano
Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov, conductor; Igor Tchetouev, piano
Nancy Wilson
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Richard Goode, piano
Sonny Fortune Quartet (Jazz at DeCordova)
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor ; Linda Hohenfeld, soprano
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov, conductor ; Emanuel Ax, piano
Tango X 2
The Chieftains
Tokyo String Quartet with Pinchas Zukerman, violin and viola
Victor Borge
Vienna Choir Boys
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano
1996-1997
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
American Ballet Theatre
Ayano Ninomiya, violin (Emerging Artists Series)
Beaux Arts Trio
Ben Vereen & Leslie Uggams, “On Broadway!”
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg, conductor; Lynn Harrell, cello
Brandenburg Ensemble, Jaimie Laredo, conductor
Carol Burnett
Cecilia Bartoli with I Delfici Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor; Olaf Baer, baritone
Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Richard Goode, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Everybody Dance Now!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Many Moons”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “MozartBridge”
Favella Lyrica (Emerging Artists Series)
Guarneri String Quartet and Orion String Quartet
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Joe Lovano Quartet (Jazz at DeCordova)
Judy Collins
Juilliard String Quartet
Julian Bream, guitar
Julie Ince Thompson, “Tamsen Donner— A Woman’s Journey” (Emerging Artists Series)
Kathleen Battle, soprano
KODO Drummers
Labor Day Celebration: Luciana Souza, Carol Sloane, Henry Cook Band (Jazz at DeCordova)
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, “Blood on the Fields”
Marcus Roberts Trio (Jazz at DeCordova)
Mighty Sparrow & Panazz Players
Mingus Big Band
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Moscow Soloists, Yuri Bashmet, conductor and violin
National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Orchestre National de France, Charles Dutoit, conductor; Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano soloists
Pamela Frank, violin and Peter Serkin, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Randy Weston’s African Rhythms Trio (Jazz at DeCordova)
Roy Hargrove Quintet (Jazz at DeCordova)
Russell Sherman, piano
Sankai Juku
Sergey Schepkin, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Sérgio & Odair Assad, duo guitar
Spalding Gray, “It’s a Slippery Slope”
Steve Turre & Sanctified Shells (Jazz at DeCordova)
The Chieftains with Carlos Nuñez
Tibetan Song & Dance Ensemble
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos, conductor; Buchbinder, Rudolf, piano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Borromeo String Quartet
Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
1997-1998
A Celebration of Brahms: Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Kaplan, Cynthia Phelps, David Finckel, and Eric Kim
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch
Andras Schiff, piano
Andre Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra, “The Vienna I Love”
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Awadagin Pratt, piano
Ballet Hispanico
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Beaux Arts Trio
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Silverstein, conductor; Derek Han, piano
Boys Choir of Harlem
Christopher Parkening, guitar, “A Celebration of Segovia”
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Esther Budiardjo, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Heroes & Villains”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Let’s Dance!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Polar Express” (world premiere)
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Guarneri String Quartet
Hal Holbrook in ‘Mark Twain Tonight’
I Musici
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
José van Dam, bass-baritone
Judith Gordon, piano (Emerging Artists Series; world premieres of Martin Brody’s (G) Corona and Lee Hyla’s Third Party)
Juilliard String Quartet
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, “The Wizard at 100: Sidney Bechet”
Marcus Schulkind Dance Company (Emerging Artists Series)
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Moscow Virtuosi, Alexander Korsantiya, piano; Alexei Motchalov, bass
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Richard Goode, piano
Peking Acrobats
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti, conductor
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Sarah Chang, violin
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Hans Vonk, conductor; André Watts, piano
Stephen Salters, baritone (Emerging Artists Series)
Tharp!
The Chieftains
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Chikara Iwamura, conductor; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Either/Orchestra
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
White Oak Dance Project
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Walter Pierce Tribute Concert: Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, William Bolcom & Joan Morris, Jean Pierre Rampal, Juilliard String Quartet, Dubravka Tomsic, Nasha Thomas-Schmitt from Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater (finale: all performers and audience sang Gershwin’s “Our Love Is Here To Stay”)
1998-1999
A Chanticleer Christmas
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
American Ballet Theatre (included Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town”)
Andrea Marcovicci, “Love Songs from the Theater”
Beaux Arts Trio
Borromeo String Quartet with Menachem Pressler, piano
Brandenburg Ensemble, Jaimie Laredo, conductor
Dance Collective (Emerging Artists Series)
Donald Byrd/The Group, “Jazz Train”
Emerson String Quartet and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Carnival of the Animals”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Tap!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Polar Express/Elijah’s Angel”
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Gil Shaham, violin
Guarneri String Quartet
Irina Muresanu, violin (Emerging Artists Series)
James Galway & Friends
John Williams, guitar
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Kendra Colton, soprano (Emerging Artists Series)
Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Alexander Torazde, piano
KODO Drummers
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, “America in Rhythm & Tune”
Lorraine Hunt, mezzo-soprano
Mark Morris Dance Group & Yo-Yo Ma (with Mikhail Baryshnikov; world premiere of Mark Morris’ “The Argument”)
Mia Chung, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Midori, Robert McDonald, Nobuko Imai, and Peter Wiley
Moiseyev Dance Company
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Hubert Soudant, conductor
Murray Perahia, piano
New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, conductor
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Charles Dutoit, conductor; Itzhak Perlman, violin; Kazue Sawai, koto, bass koto, and zheng
Panazz Players with Arturo Tappin and Ken “Professor” Philmore
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Renee Fleming, soprano
Richard Goode, piano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Vadim Repin, violin
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valery Polyansky, conductor; Vladimir Spivakov, violin
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; Jonathan Gilad, piano
Sydney Symphony, Edo de Waart, conductor
The Chieftains with Eileen Ivers, fiddle
Tokyo String Quartet
Victor Borge, “Comedy in Music”
Vienna Choir Boys, Chorus Viennensis and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Sharon Baker, soprano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Brentano String Quartet
1999-2000
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Anthony & Joseph Paratore, duo piano
Audra McDonald
Barbara Cook
Beaux Arts Trio
Ben Heppner, tenor
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor
Boys Choir of Harlem
Brandenburg Ensemble, Jaimie Laredo, conductor/violin and Leila Josefowicz, violin
Csárdás! The Tango of the East
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Diana Krall
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “April Fools!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Green Eggs & Ham/Gertrude McFuzz”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Polar Express/Elijah’s Angel”
Flying Karamazov Brothers, “Sharps, Flats, and Accidentals”
Irakere
Jessye Norman, soprano
Jong-Gyung Park, piano (Emerging Artists Series)
Juilliard String quartet
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, “For Dancers Only” (many Symphony Hall seats removed for dance floor)
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Musica Antiqua Koln with Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
New Shanghai Circus
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor; Gidon Kremer, violin
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Prometheus Dance (Emerging Artists Series)
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Russell Sherman, piano
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Arcadi Volodos, piano
Sérgio & Odair Assad, duo guitar
Spalding Gray, “Morning, Noon and Night”
Takács Quartet
The Chieftains
Triple Helix (Emerging Artists Series)
Vienna Choir Boys (2 performances)
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Boston Musica Viva
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Judith Gordon, piano
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
2000-2001
Aeros (choreography by Daniel Ezralow, David Parsons and Moses Pendleton)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andrea Marcovicci, “Our Songs”
Andreas Haefliger, piano
Ballet Hispanico
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor; Stephen Hough, piano
Beaux Arts Trio
Bobby McFerrin
Borromeo String Quartet with Leon Fleisher, piano
Boston Camerata, “Carmina Burana” (Boston Marquee)
Cecilia Bartoli with I Delfici
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
Chanticleer with Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor; Dagmar Peckova, mezzo-soprano
Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Richard Goode, piano
Emanuel Ax, piano and Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Casey: Play Ball!” (commissioned by Celebrity Series)
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Tap 2!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Polar Express/Elijah’s Angel”
Flying Karamazov Brothers, “L’Universe”
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Guarneri String Quartet
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
The Celebrity Series presented 43 engagements of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater between 1968 and 2013 for a total of 222 individual performances, more than any other single artist in its history. In Photo: Dwana Smallwood in Alvin Ailey’s Cry
Photo: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater / Celebrity Series Archives
Executive Director Martha H. Jones with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Artistic Director
Judith Jamison in 2010. During her tenure as Executive Director, Martha H. Jones deepened the Celebrity Series’ relationship to dance. The Celebrity Series presented more than 90 dance engagements under her leadership.
Isaac Stern, violin; Emerson String Quartet, Yefim Bronfman, piano
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Judith Gordon and Friends
Juilliard String Quartet
Julie Ince Thompson, “Advent 2001”
KODO Drummers
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, conductor, “Acteon/Dido and Aeneas”
Mark Morris Dance Group
Marlboro Music Festival, 50th Anniversary Celebration
Maureen McGovern and John Pizzarelli
Michael Feinsten and Betty Buckley, “On Broadway”
Midori, violin and Robert McDonald, piano
Mingus Big Band, “Blues & Politics”
Murray Perahia, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, “Swan Lake”
Sharon Isbin, guitar with Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, percussion
The Boston Trio (Boston Marquee)
The Chieftains
Van Cliburn, piano
Vienna Choir Boys
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Andrew Kohji Taylor, violin, and Max Levinson, piano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Mendelssohn String Quartet with Maria Lambros, viola
White Oak Dance Project, “PASTForward”
2001-2002
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andras Schiff, piano
Audra McDonald
Barbara Cook, “Mostly Sondheim”
Beaux Arts Trio
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor
Chanticleer and the Handel & Haydn Society
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor; and Emerson String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet
Emmanuel Music with Russell Sherman, piano
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Carnival of the Animals/And Furthermore, They Bite!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Four Seasons”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Polar Express/Elijah’s Angel”
Garth Fagan Dance
Guarneri String Quartet
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Jan Curtis, mezzo-soprano (Boston Marquee)
Joshua Bell, violin and Trondheim Soloists
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, conductor (at Jesuit Urban Center)
Les Musiciens du Louvre and Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Mark Morris Dance Group
Maurizio Pollini, piano
National Acrobats of China, R.O.C.
Nicola Hawkins Dance Company (Boston Marquee)
Patti LuPone, “Matters of the Heart”
Peter Serkin, piano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Regina Carter Quintet & The Stefon Harris Quartet
Renee Fleming, soprano and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Sol y Canto with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Boston Marquee)
Spalding Gray, “Swimming to Cambodia”
Stefan Jackiw, violin (Boston Marquee)
Takács String Quartet and Robert Pinsky
The Chieftains
The Eileen Ivers Band
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
Vienna Choir Boys
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Christopheren Nomura, baritone
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Orli Shaham, piano
2002-2003
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
American Ballet Theatre
Anna Myer and Dancers (Boston Marquee)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Audra McDonald
Ben Heppner, tenor
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Orion String Quartet
Boston Camerata, “Cantigas de Santa Maria” (Boston Marquee)
Boston Musica Viva, “Chitra” (Boston Marquee)
Boys Choir of Harlem
Brandenburg Ensemble
Brentano String Quartet, “Bach Perspectives”
Cecilia Bartoli with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi, conductor; Vadim Repin, violin
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Daniel Barenboim, piano
David Sedaris
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Ellis Marsalis & Sons (Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason Marsalis with Reginald Veal, bass)
Emerson String Quartet
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Dance Music” (Seán Curran, choreographer; Judith Gordon, piano)
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Green Eggs and Hamadeus”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Polar Express/Elijah’s Angel”
Gil Shaham, violin and Goran Sollscher, guitar
Itzhak Perlman, violin
José van Dam, bass-baritone
Juilliard String Quartet
KODO Drummers
London Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, conductor
Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mummenschanz, “Next”
Murray Perahia, piano
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Pilobolus
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor; Jane Irwin, mezzo-soprano
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Richard Goode, piano
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet and Emanuel Ax, piano
Robert Levin, piano (Boston Marquee)
Stanislav Ioudenitch, piano
The Chieftains
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Philharmonic, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Judith Blazer, soprano
William Bolcom & Joan Morris
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
2003-2004
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway, “Sibling Revelry”
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti, conductor; Piotr Anderszewski, piano
Beaux Arts Trio
Bobby McFerrin
Borromeo String Quartet with Richard Stoltzman, clarinet (Boston Marquee) Brandenburg Ensemble
Cecilia Bartoli and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Cirque Eloize, “Nomade”
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Emerson String Quartet
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Gertride McFuzz” and “Lazy Andy Ant”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Peter and the Wolf”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Trick or Treat!”
Flying Karamazov Brothers, “Catch!”
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano and Samuel Ramey, bass
Guarneri String Quartet with David Soyer, cello
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Yoel Levi, conductor; André Watts, piano
Joshua Bell, piano
Kirov Ballet and Orchestra
Lang Lang, piano
Leon Fleisher, piano
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, mezzo-soprano
Marilyn Horne and Barbara Cook, “Just Between Friends”
Mark Morris Dance Group
New Shanghai Circus, Incredible! Acrobats of China
Patti LuPone, “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (Boston Marquee)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Snappy Dance Theater (Boston Marquee)
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Takács Quartet with Andreas Haefliger, piano
The Chieftains
The Mutter-Previn-Harrell Trio
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor; Nikolaj Znaider, violin
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Wu Han, piano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow, Diane Sutherland, soprano, and Michael Winther, tenor
Wynton Marsalis
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
2004-2005
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Barbara Quintiliani, soprano
Beaux Arts Trio
Ben Heppner, tenor
Bernadette Peters in Concert
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, “The Phantom Project”
Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra, “Raymonda” and “Don Quixote”
Boston Camerata, “Johnny Johnson” (Boston Marquee)
Chanticleer
David Daniels, countertenor
David Sedaris
Dresden Staatskapelle, Myung Whun Chung, conductor with Emanuel Ax, piano
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Emerson String Quartet (Complete Mendelssohn quartets; 2 performances)
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Carnival of the Animals”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Fairy Tales Inside/Out”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “The Four Seasons”
Hilary Hahn, violin
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Lang Lang, piano
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Dianne Reeves
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet with Colin Currie, percussion
Mark Morris Dance Group
Maurizio Pollini, piano
National Acrobats of Taiwan, R.O.C.
New England String Ensemble (Boston Marquee)
Orchestre National de France, Kurt Masur, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Peter Cincotti
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “Creole Christmas”
Renee Fleming, soprano
Seán Curran Company
Sergey Schepkin, piano (Boston Marquee)
Sérgio & Odair Assad, duo guitar and Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet, “Dances From the New World”
Soweto Gospel Choir
The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater (Boston Marquee)
The Chieftains
Tokyo String Quartet
Vienna Choir Boys
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Handel and Haydn Society
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Shanghai Quartet
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
2005-2006
Alexander McCall Smith
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Andras Schiff, piano
Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant 40th Anniversary Massacree Tour
Audra McDonald
Cecilia Bartoli, Orchestra La Scintillia of Zurich Opera
Christopher Parkening, guitar and Jubilant Sykes, baritone
David Deveau and Friends
David Sedaris
Deborah Voigt, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
eighth blackbird, “lucid, inescapable, rhythms”
Either/Orchestra with Ethiopian special guests (Boston Marquee)
Emerson String Quartet
Ewa Podle´s, contralto
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Crossing the Divide, A Musical Tribute to Lewis and Clark”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Everybody Dance Now!” (Seán Curran, choreographer)
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Green Eggs and Hamadeus”
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
I Musici with Stephen Hough, piano
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Joe Lovano Quartet / Luciana Souza (double bill)
Limon Dance Company
Juilliard String Quartet
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; Sergey Khachatryan, violin
Mark Morris Dance Group, “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”
Martha Graham Dance Company
Matt Haimovitz, cello
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Rebecca Rice Dance (Boston Marquee)
Richard Goode, piano
Royal Ballet, “Manon”
Savion Glover, “Classical Savion”
Soweto Gospel Choir
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, conductor and piano (Barenboim and James Levine played four-hand piano after intermission)
Stefan Jackiw, violin and Max Levinson, piano (Boston Marquee)
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Takács Quartet
Terry Gross and Ira Glass
The Chieftains
Vadim Repin, violin and Nikolai Lugansky, piano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Terri Klausner, soprano, Michael Winther, tenor and Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Jupiter String Quartet
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Pacifica Quartet
Wu Man, pipa
Wynton Marsalis
Yefim Bronfman, piano and Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
2006-2007
Alexander Kobrin, piano
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, “The Mozart Project”
Australian Chamber Orchestra with Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, “Palladium Nights”
Barbara Cook, “No One Is Alone”
Bobby McFerrin with Voicestra
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; Rinde Eckert, actor/singer and DJ Spooky (Boston Marquee, world premiere of Evan Ziporyn’s “Hard Drive”)
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Cirque Eloize, “Rain”
Compania Nacional de Danza 2
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Daniel Bernard Roumain & THE MISSION, “24 Bits: Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes”
Emerson String Quartet with Leon Fleisher, piano
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Peter and the Wolf”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Tap on Tap!”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Trick or Treat!” (with New England Philharmonic)
Frank Rich
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Garrison Keillor
Gidon Kremer and Krystian Zimerman
Guarneri String Quartet
Hilary Hahn, violin
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, “The Songs We Love”
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Karita Mattila, soprano
Kathy Mattea
Kinodance Company, “Denizen” (world premiere)
Kirov Ballet and Orchestra, “Swan Lake”
Lang Lang, piano
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor
National Philharmonic of Russia, Vladimir Spivakov, conductor; Olga Kern, piano
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor; Hélène Grimaud, piano
Olympia Dukakis in “Rose”
Pilobolus
Prazak String Quartet with Roger Tapping, viola
Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Ellis Marsalis, piano (Benefit for New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund)
Regina Carter Quintet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Sérgio & Odair Assad, duo guitar
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Vienna Choir Boys
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Christòpheren Nomura, baritone
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow, Boston
Musica Viva, and Jennifer Frautschi, violin
2007-2008
A Chanticleer Christmas
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville
Marriner conductor, Yuja Wang, piano
African Children’s Choir, “Journey of Hope”
Alfred Brendel, piano
Alisa Weilerstein, cello (Boston Marquee)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Beaux Arts Trio
Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle, conductor; Ben Heppner, tenor; Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Black Grace Dance Company
Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas, conductor and piano soloist
Cherryholmes
David Daniels, countertenor
David Sedaris
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Emanuel Ax, piano
ETHEL
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Carnival of the Animals”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Casey: Play Ball!”
Gil Shaham, violin
Golden Dragon Acrobats
Guarneri String Quartet & Johannes String Quartet
Imani Winds
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Mark Morris Dance Group, “Dido and Aeneas”
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
Moiseyev Dance Company
Orchestre National de France, Kurt Masur, conductor; David Fray, piano
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Band of the Coldstream Guards
Sarah Vowell and David Rakoff
Seán Curran Company (world premiere of “Social Discourse”)
St. Lawrence String Quartet with Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
Takács Quartet
The Assad Brothers’ Brazilian Guitar Festival
The Chieftains with Alyth McCormack and Siobhain O’Brien
Tiempo Libre
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Jeremy Denk, piano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Michael Winther, tenor and Sally Wilfert, soprano
2008-2009
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (50th Anniversary, with Sweet Honey in the Rock)
Angela Hewitt, piano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano and Bengt Forsberg and Brad Mehldau, piano (Program included 5 songs composed by Mehldau)
Bernadette Peters in Concert
David Sedaris
Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Gilbert Kalish, piano
Dresden Staatskapelle, Fabio Luisi, conductor; Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Green Eggs and Hamadeus”
Family Musik with Rob Kapilow, “Jabberwocky” (Co-commissioned by Celebrity Series)
Golden Dragon Acrobats
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
KODO Drummers
Lang Lang, piano
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano and Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Leon Fleisher 80th Birthday Celebration (Leon Fleisher, Yefim Bronfman, Jonathan Biss, and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, conductor, Alexei Volodin, piano
Mark Morris Dance Group
Murray Perahia, piano
National Philharmonic of Russia, Vladimir Spivakov, conductor; Denis Matsuev, piano
Nederlands Dans Theater II
Orion String Quartet with David Krakauer, clarinet
Paddy Moloney with Chieftains and special guests
Renee Fleming, soprano
Romeros Guitar Quartet (Celin, Pepe, Lito, and Celino Romero)
Soweto Gospel Choir
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Takács Quartet with Muzsikás
The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “Down by the Riverside”
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
Tokyo String Quartet
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Parker String Quartet
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow, Boston Musica Viva, Chee Yun and Jennifer Frautschi, violin soloists
2009-2010
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
An Evening with Stephen Sondheim, An Onstage Conversation with Frank Rich
Artemis String Quartet
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle, conductor
Black Grace Dance Company
Bobby McFerrin
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Chanticleer, “In Time Of …”
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Danish Dance Theater
David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano; Philip Setzer, violin
David Sedaris
Dee Dee Bridgewater, “To Billie with Love— A Celebration of Lady Day”
Emanuel Ax, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Frederica von Stade with Kiri Te Kanawa
Imani Winds with Stefon Harris, vibraphone and marimba
Ingrid Fliter, piano
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo
Chailly, conductor; Louis Lortie, piano
Luciana Souza Trio
Mark Morris Dance Group, “Mozart Dances”
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester, “A Night in Berlin”
Maya Beiser, cello, “World to Come”
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
Richard Goode & Jonathan Biss, duo pianists
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Suzanne Vega
The Laramie Project, 10 years Later… (Community event)
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
Vienna Choir Boys
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Borromeo and Ariel String Quartets
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow, Michael Winther, tenor, and Sally Wilfert, soprano
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Kathryn Stott, piano
2010-2011
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Ann Hampton and Liz Callaway, “Boom!”
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Balé Folclórico da Bahia
Basil Twist’s “Petrushka”
BeijingDance/LDTX
Christine Brewer, soprano
Chucho Valdes with the Afro-Cuban Messengers
Compagnia TPO, “Farfalle”
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dubravka Tomsic, piano
Emerson String Quartet with Sir James Galway, flute
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Golden Dragon Acrobats
Haochen Zhang, piano
Ira Glass, “Radio Stories and Other Stories”
John Williams, guitar
Joshua Bell, piano
KODO Drummers, 30th Anniversary
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, violin soloist/leader
Mark Morris Dance Group (world premiere of “Petrichor,” commissioned by Celebrity Series)
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Patti LuPone, “The Gypsy in My Soul”
Philharmonia Quartett Berlin Pilobolus
Pinchas Zukerman, violin/viola and Yefim Bronfman, piano
Savion Glover, “SoLo in TiMe”
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Takács Quartet
The Del McCoury Band with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “American Legacies”
Tierney Sutton Band
Tokyo String Quartet with Lynn Harrell, cello
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Claremont Trio
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow, Boston Musica Viva, Andrew Garland, baritone, and Meredith Hansen, soprano
Mad About Marty: A Tribute to Martha H. Jones (with David Finckel, Wu Han, Philip Setzer, ABT principal dancers Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky, Wu Man, members of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Kathy Mattea)
2011-2012
Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell, music director and solo violin
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
An Afternoon with Garrison Keillor
Angela Hewitt, piano
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Aszure Barton and Artists
Audra McDonald
Ballet Hispanico
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Original Lineup Circa’s “Circa”
David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano; Philip Setzer, violin
David Sedaris
Emanuel Ax, piano
Emerson String Quartet
Eurpoean Union Youth Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano
Hagen Quartet
Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak
Dance Company, “Oyster”
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Jane Monheit
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Kathy Mattea
Lang Lang, piano
Lise de la Salle, piano
Mark Morris Dance Group
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester, “One Cannot Kiss Alone”
Orion String Quartet with David Shifrin, clarinet
Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Roby Lakatos Ensemble
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Sarah Chang, violin
Sérgio & Odair Assad, duo guitar
Soweto Gospel Choir
Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band featuring Terence Blanchard, trumpet “Cubano Be, Cubano Bop!”
The Chieftains, “Voice of Ages” (50th Anniversary Tour)
The English Concert, Harry Bicket, harpsichord; Andreas Schöll, contertenor
The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Stuart Duncan, fiddle; Edgar Meyer, bass; Chris Thile, mandolin; at House of Blues)
Vienna Boys Choir
Vijay Iyer Trio and Miguel Zenón Quartet
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow, Lucas Vondracek, piano and the Borromeo String Quartet
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow,
Rebecca Luker, soprano and Michael Winther, tenor
2012-2013
A Chanticleer Christmas
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Barbara Cook and John Pizzarelli
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Bobby McFerrin, “Spirit You All”
Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Chick Corea and Gary Burton, “Hot House Tour” (with Harlem String Quartet)
Christine Ebersole
Chucho Valdes Quintet
Daniil Trifonov, piano (Debut Series)
Danish Dance Theatre, “Love Songs”
David Sedaris
Emerson String Quartet
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Frank Rich and Fran Lebowitz, “A State of the Union Conversation”
Gil Shaham, violin
Grupo Corpo
Hilary Hahn, violin
Itzhak Perlman & Chazan Yitzchok Meir Helfgot, “Eternal Echoes”
James Galway Legacy Tour
Jeremy Denk, piano
Jonathan Biss, “Schumann: Under the Influence, Part I”
Jonathan Biss & Elias String Quartet, “Schumann: Under the Influence, Part II”
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
London Philharmonic, Vladimir Jurowski, conductor; Vadim Repin, violin
Midori, violin
Miloš Karadagli´c, guitar (Debut Series, 2 performances)
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Christian McBride, bass, music director) Mummenschanz
Nathan Gunn, baritone
Pacifica String Quartet with Anthony McGill, clarinet (Debut Series)
Paul Lewis, piano
Renee Fleming, soprano and Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Roz Chast, “Theories of Everything”
Savion Glover, “SoLe Sanctuary”
Spellbound Dance Company
Susanna Philips, soprano and Joseph Kaiser, tenor (Debut Series)
Takács Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Terry Gross, “All I Did Was Ask”
Thomas Hampson and the Jupiter String Quartet
Tokyo String Quartet (Farewell Performance, at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH)
Vilde Frang, violin (Debut Series)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor (student orchestra of Israeli and Arab musicians)
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Judith Gordon, piano
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the JP Jofre New Tango Quintet
A number of engagements listed in this book were co-presented with colleagues at other arts organizations in Boston. The following organizations have co-presented one or more engagements with the Celebrity Series: ArtsEmerson, Boston Early Music Festival, Broadway in Boston, Citi Performing Arts Center, Dance Umbrella, Handel and Haydn Society, and World Music.
Over 75 years, the Celebrity Series has presented performances in a total of 29 venues, some of which are no longer standing. Past or present, every patron has a favorite.
1 Boston Garden (1928-1998) 150 Causeway Street, Boston
2 Berklee Performance Center / Fenway Theatre (1915- ) 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston Renovated and reopened by Berklee College of Music in 1976
3 Boston Conservatory Theater (1949- ) 31 Hemenway Street, Boston
4 Boston University Theatre / Esquire Theatre / Repertory Theatre of Boston (1925- ) 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston
5 Calderwood Pavilion (2004- ) (Virginia Wimberly Theatre) 527 Tremont Street , Boston
6 Citi Wang Theatre / Wang Center for the Performing Arts / The Music Hall / Metropolitan Center (1925- ) 270 Tremont Street, Boston
7 Emerson Colonial Theatre (1900- ) 106 Boylston Street, Boston
8 Copley Plaza Hotel Ballroom (1912- ) 138 St. James Avenue, Boston
9 Copley Theatre / The New England Life Hall / The New England Mutual Hall (1941- ) 225 Clarendon Street , Boston
10 Cutler Majestic Theatre / Emerson Majestic / Saxon Theatre / Majestic Theatre (1903- ) 219 Tremont Street, Boston
11 Cyclorama Building (1884- ) 539 Tremont Street, Boston
Originally built to house one of four versions of Paul Philippoteaux’s “Gettysburg Cyclorama” paintings of the famous Civil War battle; redeveloped in 1970
12 Loew’s State Theater / Donnelly Memorial / Back Bay Theater (1922- ) 205 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston Demolished in 1968
13 House of Blues (1969- ) 15 Lansdowne Street, Boston Opened as a nightclub in 1969, and was, variously, The Ark, The Boston Tea Party, Boston-Boston, Metro, CITI and Avalon nightclubs; opened as House of Blues in 2009. (Site of Goat Rodeo Sessions concert/simulcast/broadcast recording in 2012)
14 War Memorial Auditorium / Hynes Auditorium / John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center (1965- ) 900 Boylston Street, Boston
15 John Hancock Hall (1947- )
180 Berkeley Street, Boston
Part of the Old John Hancock Building
16 Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory (1903- )
30 Gainsborough Street , Boston
17 Jesuit Urban Center, Church of the Immaculate Conception (1861-2007)
775 Harrison Avenue, Boston Church was closed in 2007 and sold in 2013
18 Boston Opera House / Savoy Theatre / RKO Keith’s / B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre (1928- )
539 Washington Street, Boston
Purchased by Boston Opera Company and renamed Boston Opera House in 1979
19 Boston Opera House (1909-1958)
343 Huntington Avenue, Boston Demolished in 1958; now the site of Speare Hall on the Northeastern University campus
20 Orpheum Theatre / Aquarius Theatre / Empire Theatre / Boston Music Hall (1852- )
1 Hamilton Place, Boston
21 Paramount Center: Paramount Mainstage and Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre (1932- )
555 Washington Street, Boston Renovated with addition of black box theatre in 2008
22 Plymouth Theatre / Gary Theatre (1911-1978)
131 Stuart Street, Boston Renamed the Gary Theatre in 1957, demolished in 1978
23 Sanders Theatre (1875- ) Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
24 Symphony Hall (1900- )
301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
25 Shubert Theatre (1910- )
265 Tremont Street , Boston
26 Tsai Performance Center at Boston University (1989- ) 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
27 Wilbur Theatre (1915- )
246 Tremont Street , Boston
Others: Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music of Bard College (1970- )
27 Garden Street, Cambridge DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park Amphitheater
51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts (Jazz at DeCordova series, 1995-96)
Celebrity Series Executive Directors
Aaron Richmond (1938-1865)
Walter Pierce (1965-1996)
Martha H. Jones (1996-2011)
Gary Dunning (2011-present)
Celebrity Series
Board of Directors
1989 – Present
Hugh Auchincloss
Donald J. Barker
Katharine Batillo
Joan W. Belkin
Harris A. Berman*
Joshua Boger*
Steve Braude
Paul Buddenhagen
Michael S. Canning
Ray F. Carmichael
Barry Cohen
Bertram Cohen
Eunice Cohen
Rosalie Cohen
Caroline Collings*
Carolyn Coverdale
Helen Hargadon Dalby
Tamara P. Davis
JoAnne Dickinson
Steve DiFillippo
Margaret Eagle
Donna Egan
Grace Fey
Michael B. Fox
Ronald S. Frank
Robert E. Gallery
Martin J. Gantshar
Gabor Garai
Maynard Goldman
Maria Capone Goodwin
Judy Green
Kathleen Powers Haley
Susan P. Haney
Hyon Suk O Harvey
Randolph Hawthorne
Cerise Lim Jacobs
Ilene Jacobs
Brian Kardon
Paul Kastner
Lisa Kelly-Croswell
Frances DeMoulas Kettenbach
Dennis W. Kunian
Benjamin H. Lacy
Ronald Lammy
Barbara Lee
Jann Leeming
Paul Levy
Anthony Lewis
Mr. Robert I. Lurie*
Arthur MacKenzie
Rosann G. Madan
Kenneth Roberts Madden
Robert Martin, Jr
Linda Russell McGoldrick
Dr. Gordon Moore
Maureen McGuire Myers
Tami E. Nason
Norman C. Nicholson, Jr
Eleanor Y. Pao
John Patterson
Walter Pierce
Joy A. W. Pratt*
Leontyne Price
Professor Melinda Rabb
Sharon L. Rich
Robert Rosenthal
Sally L. Rubin
Robert Sachs
Daniel Salera
Susan Schechter
Diana Scott
Pamela Scott
Daniel Scully
Spring Sirkin
The Celebrity Series would like to thank the following individuals and institutions for their invaluable assistance with this project:
Anonymous, Anna Ackerberg, Harris A. Berman, M.D. and Ruth Nemzoff, Bridget Carr, Richard Dyer, Martha H. Jones , Eleanor and Norman Nicholson, Walter Pierce, Melody Pao, Marylen Sternweiler, Nancy Richmond Winsten, Boston Globe Archives, Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives, Sametz Blackstone Associates
Eliot Norton’s book, Broadway Down East, published by The Boston Public Library in 1978, was an essential resource for researching historic Celebrity Series venues.
Editorial Direction: Jack Wright
Johannes Spanjaard
John J. Spinola
Joseph Steinfield
Mary Elisabeth Swerz
John Larkin Thompson
Jeffrey Thomson
Elizabeth G. Trehu
Sanjay Verma
Dorothy Altman Weber
D. Bruce Wheeler
Deborah Sohmer Wilson
Nancy Richmond Winsten
Charles O. Wood, III*
Earnest Wu
Arnold B. Zetcher*
Janet Zwanziger
Board of Overseers
1996 – Present
Margaret A. Albert
Harold Amos
Betsey Ansin
Essence McGill Arzu
Esssence R. McGill
Mandy Lee Berman
Armin G. Biller
Mara D. Calame
Michael S. Canning
Martin Carmichael
Fernadina Chan
Stuart Cohen
Dr. Mark Cooley
Kevin J. Counihan
Anne Coveney
Jolyon Cowan
Miner A. Crary
Amy d’Ablemont Burnes
Alma Derricks
Margaret Eagle
Robert D. Egan
Joseph D. Feaster Jr.
Mark Fischer
C. Nancy Fisher
Eleanor Friedman
Susan Galler
Martin Gantshar
Paula Gilbert
Lee Day Gillespie
Richard S. Glantz
Lisa Goodheart
Dyan Goodwin
Dr. Lisa B. Grain
Kieran Gray
David Green
Judy Green
Kathleen Powers Haley
Suk Harvey
Randolph Hawthorne
Ellen S. Heller
Yvette Hochberg
Cerise Lim Jacobs
Marie B. Kalat
Cindy Kanter
Wendy Karlyn
Paul Kastner
Jack Kelly
Edgar Knudson
Amy Kono
Ronni S. Kotler
Katharine Kush
Charles Landay
Wendy Lavallee
Stephen Leonard
Margot LeStrange
Alexander M. Levine
Robin Powell Mandjes
Robert S. McWade
Tami Nason
Doreve Nicholaeff, M.D.
Dr. Heriberto Pagan-Marin
Alison Palmer
Dr. Michael Palmer, M.D.
Jamie Parker
Dr. David M. Perlman
Silvia Pope
Michael Raizman, MD
Mrs. Abby Rosenfeld
Sally Rubin
Howard Salwen
Evelyn Sanders-Haye
Susan Schechter
Linda Schwabe
Pamela C. Scott
Sally Seaver
Dr. Fred E. Shapiro
Sandra Shapiro #
Danielle Sheer
Dr. Samuel Shubrooks
Mark Slater
S. Merrell Stearns
Joel Stein
Marylen Sternweiler
Alan D. Stone
Daniel S. Tarlow
Benn Theodore
Louis M. Thomas
Jeffrey Thomson#
Susan T Thonis
James Vanderpol
Judith K. Verhave
Paul A. Waldeck
Wendy Watson
Dorothy Altman Weber #
Barnet Weinstein
Peter Wender
Lawrence T. Williams
Mary Ann Williams#
Donna Wilmarth
Deborah Sohmer Wilson
Dr. Earnest Wu
Laura A. Zimmerman
*Board Chair
# Overseer Chair