The LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA
Transcript of The LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA
LOU-545-1
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RECORDED BY COLUMBIA
Paul Creston Invocation and Dance
Heitor Villa-Lobos
The LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA
ROBERT WHITNEY, CONDUCTOR
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Halsey Stevens Triskelion
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FIRST Few stories in America's cultural history
are more interesting than the record of Louisville’s emergence, over the past two or three decades, as a center of the music arts— an emergence from a glamorous but earthier fame as the home of “beautiful women, fast horses and good Bourbon whiskey”.
It was in 1948 that The Louisville Orches¬ tra, conducted by Robert Whitney, followed the suggestion of Louisville’s Mayor Charles P. Farnsley and began a policy of commis¬ sioning a composer to write a work for world premiere performance on each subscription concert. Now, over 140 world premieres later, this non-profit group has assumed a unique position in musical history.
The fruits of this effort have not been con¬
fined to Louisville audiences. Not only has every major orchestra in the free world given performances of Louisville Orchestra com¬ missions, but by November, 1964, the Or¬ chestra had released sixty-six 12" LP records.
These “First Edition Recordings” have been supervised by the composers them¬ selves, to insure musical authenticity, and are recorded in finest high fidelity by Colum¬ bia engineers.
Initially available on a subscription basis only, the connoisseur subscribers have ac¬ quired a total of 150 compositions including six operas and 144 orchestral works. Com¬ posers from virtually every country of the free world are represented on this series. Their styles of composition range from con¬
ventional to atonal and experimental, giving the subscriber a true cross-section of the best musical creative art of our world today.
Critical reaction of the music world can best be summed up in the resolution passed by 41 eminent critics meeting in their Third Annual National Workshop. It reads in part: “Mem¬ bers of the Music Critics Workshop wish to conmiend without reservation the conception and operation of The Louisville Orchestra’s commissioning plan . . . the imagination and enterprise shown by the directors of The Louisville Orchestra deserve a tribute from the whole American musical community”.
For information on subscriptions to future releases, contact:
Richard Wangerin, Manager, The Louisville Orchestra, 830
Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40203.
A COLLECTION FOB CONNOISSEURS
Paul Creston Heitor Villa-Lobos
Halsey Stevens
LOU Henry Cowell Alexander Tcherepnin Bernard Wagenaar
LOU- Peter Mennin Wallingford Riegger
Ernest Toch ^
LOU- Alan Hovhaness
Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco
Carlos Surinach
LOU- Jacques Ibert Gardner Read Otto Luening-Vladimir
Ussachevsky
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LOU-5451 Invocation andNJgmce Overture: “Dawn in a
Tropical Forest’ Triskelion
-5452 Symphony No. 11 Suite, Opus 87 A Concert Overture
5453 Symphony No. 6 Variations for Piano'
Orchestra (Benjamin Owen, Pianist)
Notturno
-5454 Concerto No. 7 for
Orchestra Overture to “Much Ado
About Nothing” Sinfonietta Flamenca
5455 Louisville Concerto Toccata Giocoso Rhapsodic Variations for
Tape Recorder and Orchestra
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LOU-5456 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Opera: “The Transposed
Heads” (Moritz Bombard, Director)
LOU-5457
Juan Orrego-Salas
Harold Shapero Robert Muczynski
Henk Badings Ben Weber Leo Sowerby
Paul Nordoff Paul Muller-Zurich
Andre Jolivet John Vincent
Rolf Liebermann
Roger Sessions
Ned Rorem Bernard Reichel
LOU-565 Serenata Concertante,
Op. 42 Credo for Orchestra Concerto No. 1 for Piano
and Orchestra (Robert Muczynski, Pianist)
LOU-566 The Louisville Symphony Prelude and Passacaglia All on a Summer’s Day
LOU-571 Winter Symphony Concerto for Cello and
Orchestra, Op. 55 (Grace Whitney Cellist)
LOU-572 Suite Transoceane Symphony in D
LOU-573 Opera: “Schpol for Wives”
(Moritz Bombard, Director)
LOU-574 “Idyll of Theocritus” for
Soprano and Orchestra (Audrey Nossaman, Soprano)
LOU-575 Design for Orchestra Suite Symphonique
Vincent Persichetti Symphony for Strings Robert Sanders Little Symphony No. 2
in Bb Boris Blacher Studie im Pianissimo,
Opus 45
LOU-5458 Luigi Dallapiccola Variazioni per Orchestra Jose Pablo Moncayo Cumbres Ulysses Kay Serenade for Orchestra Darius Milhaud Ouverture
Mediterraneenne
LOU-5459 Gottfried Van Einem Meditations Karol Rathaus Prelude for Orchestra,
Opus 71 George Perle Rhapsody for Orchestra
Alberto Ginastera
William Bergsma Henri Sauguet Robert Ward
Gian-Francesco Malipiero
Vittorio Rieti
Ernst Bacon
Richard Mohaupt
Hilding Rosenberg Chou Wen-Chung Camargo Guarnieri
LOU-54510 Pampeana No. 3, A
Pastoral Symphony A Carol on Twelfth Night Les Trois Lys Euphony for Orchestra
LOU-54511 Fantasie di Ogni Giorno
Introduzione e Gioco Delle Ore
The Enchanted Island
LOU-54512 Opera: “Double Trouble”
(Moritz Bombard, Director)
LOU-561 Louisville Concerto And the Fallen Petals Suite IV Centenario
LOU-562 Alexandre Tansman Capriccio Felix Borowski The Mirror Ingolf Dahl The Tower of St. Barbara
LOU-563 Ernst Krenek Eleven Transparencies Roberto Caamano Magnificat, Op. 20 (Choir
of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
George Antheil
LOU-564 Opera: “The Wish”
(Moritz Bombard, Director)
Edmund Rubbra
Irving Fine
Harold Morris
Alexei Haieff Nicolas Nabokov
Lou Harrison
Peter Jona Korn
Elliott Carter Everett Helm
Arthur Berger Carlos Surinach Meyer Kupferman
Roger Goeb Gail Kubik
Walter Piston David Van Vactor
Niels Viggo Bentzon
^ Aaron Copland * Alfonso Letelier
Sir Arthur Bliss Colin McPhee
Herbert Elwell
Halsey Stevens f
LOU-576 Improvisation for Violin
and Orchestra (Sidney Harth, Violinist)
Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra
Passacaglia, Adagio and Finale
LOU-581 Ballet in E Symboli Chrestiani for
Baritone and Orchestra (William Pickett, Baritone)
LOU-582 “Four Strict Songs” for
Eight Baritones and Orchestra
Variations on a Tune from “The Beggar’s Opera”
LOU-583 Variations for Orchestra Second Piano Concerto
(Benjamin Owen, Pianist)
LOU-584 Polyphony for Orchestra Feria Magica Overture Fourth Symphony
LOU-585 Concertino for Orchestra II Symphony No. 2 in F
LOU-586 Serenata Fantasia, Chaconne and
Allegro Pezzi Sinfonici, Opus 109
LOU-591 Orchestral Variations Aculeo, Suite for Orchestra
LOU-592 Discourse for Orchestra S5nmphony No. 2, Pastoral
LOU-593 Concert Suite for Violin
and Orchestra (Sidney Harth, Violinist)
Sinfonia Breve
CATALOGUE OF RELEASES THROUGH 1964
Nicolas Nabokov
Henry Cowell Benjamin Lees
Bohuslav Martinu Nikolai Lopatnikoff
Paul Ben-Haim
Wallingford Riegger
Klaus Egge
Roy Harris
Lee Hoiby
William Schuman
Gian-Francesco Malipiero
Paul Hindemith Claude Almand
David Diamond
Bernard Rogers Joaquin Rodrigo
Vincent Persichetti
Eiiiott Carter Alexei Haieff
Ernst Toch Roberto Garcia-
Morillo
Peter Mennin Joaquin Rodrigo
Alan Hovhaness
Chou Wen-Chung
LOU-594 Opera: “The Holy Devil”
(Moritz Bombard, Dir.)
LOU-595 Ongaku for Orchestra Symphony No. 2
LOU-596 Estampes Music for Orchestra, Op. 39
LOU-601 “To The Chief Musician”
Metamorphoses for Orchestra
Variations for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 71 (Sidney Harth, Soloist)
LOU-602 Symphony No. 3
Louisville Symphony “Kentucky Spring”
LOU-603 Opera: “Beatrice.” Moritz
Bombard, Director (Commissioned by WAVE Radio-TV)
LOU-604 Judith, A Choreographic
Poem Piano Concerto No. 3
(Benjamin Owen, Soloist)
LOU-605 Sinfonietta in E John Gilbert: A
Steamboat Overture Overture: “Timon of
Athens”
LOU-606 Dance Scenes Cuatro Madrigales Ama-
torios: for Soprano and Orchestra (Audrey Nossaman, Soprano)
Serenade No. 5
LOU-611 Symphony No. 1 Divertimento
LOU-612 Peter Pan Variaciones Olimpicas,
Opus 24
LOU-613 Symphony No. 5 Concerto Galante for Vio¬
loncello and Orchestra (Grace Whitney, Cellist)
LOU-614 Magnificat for Four Solo
Voices, Chorus and Orchestra, Opus 157
All in the Spring Wind
LOU-615 Alexander Tcherepnin Piano Concerto No. 2
(Alexander Tcherepnin, Pianist)
Arthur Honegger Suite Archaique
LOU-616 Robert Kurka Symphony No. 2 Robert Whitney Concertino
LOU-621 Charles Ives Decoration Day Lou Harrison Suite for Symphonic
Strings
Henry Cowell Rodolfo Halffter
LOU-622 Thesis (Symphony No. 15) Ballet Suite, “La Madru-
gada Del Panadero” (The Early Awakening of the Baker)
Harald Saeverud
George Rochberg
Juan Orrego-Salas
Andrzej Panufnik
Ross Lee Finney Iain Hamilton
Benjamin Britten
Paul Ben-Haim
Zoltan Kodaly Nelson Keyes
Hale Smith Gardner Read Robert Kurka
Walter Piston
Hall Overton
George Rochberg Ray Luke
Carlisle Floyd
Robert Sanders
Frank Martin
Ernest Bloch
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Luigi Dallapiccola Chou Wen-Chung
Jose Serebrier
LOU-623 Peer Gynt Suite No. 1,
Op. 28 Night Music
LOU-624 Symphony No. 2 (To the
Memory of a Wanderer) Op. 39
Sinfonia Elegiaca
LOU-625 Symphony No. 2 Scottish Dances, Op. 32
LOU-626 Violin Concerto No. 1, Op.
15 (Paul Kling, Soloist) Pastorale Variee for
Clarinet, Harp & Strings, Op. 31 (James Livingston, Soloist)
LOU-631 Symphony (1961) Suite, “Music for Monday
Evenings”
LOU-632 Contours for Orchestra Night Flight, Op. 44 Serenade for Small Or¬
chestra, Op. 25
LOU-633 Concerto for Viola and
Orchestra (Paul Doktor, Violist)
Symphony No. 2 in One Movement
LOU-634 Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 2
LOU-635 The Mystery: Five Songs
of Motherhood for Soprano and Orchestra (Phyllis Curtin, Soprano)
Little Symphony in G
LOU-636 Concerto for Violin and
Orchestra (Paul Kling, Violinist)
Proclamation for Trumpet and Orchestra (Leon Raper, Trumpeter)
Pieces for Prepar‘d Piano and Strings (Benjamin Owen, Pianist)
LOU-641 Due Pezzi Soliloquy of a Bhiksuni
(Leon Raper, Trumpeter)
Partita
LOU-642 Quincy Porter Symphony No. 2 Vittorio Giannini Divertimento No. 2
LOU-643 Werner Egk Suite from “Abraxas” Hans Werner Henze Wedding Music from
“Undine” Irving Fine Diversions
LOU-644 Ned Rorem Eleven Studies for
Eleven Players William Sydeman Orchestral Abstractions
LOU-645 Alexander Tcherepnin Symphony No. 2 Richard Mohaupt Town Piper Music
LOU-646 Wallingford Riegger Symphony No. 4 Roberto Gerhard Alegrias, Ballet Suite
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THE
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA
ROBERT WHITNEY, Conductor
LOU-545-1 KONBREAKABLE
SIDE 1 (XTV 21578)
(Paul Creston) Band I. INVOCATION AND DANCE, Op. 58
Band 2. ALVORADA NA FLORESTA TROPICAL (Dawn in a Tropical ForesI)
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