A partial list of concerts presented by Aaron Richmond
prior to the founding of the Celebrity Series


1924-25 Season

Abbie Conley Rice, contralto
Alberto Sciarretti, piano
Alexander Brailowsky, piano (3 performances)
Alfredo Oswald, piano (Benefit for South End Music School)
Betty Gray, contralto
Carmela Ippolito, violin
Crystal Waters, soprano
Cyrus Ullian, pianist
Denoe Leedy, piano
Durrell String Quartet
Elena Gerhardt, mezzo-soprano (Betsy Culp, piano accomp.)
Ernest Lamoureaux, baritone (Arthur Fiedler, piano accomp.)
Felix Fox, piano
Felix Salmond, violin ("Frank Sheridan, at the piano")
Fox-Burgin-Bedetti Trio, (Felix Fox, piano, Richard Burgin, violin, Jen Bedetti, cello)
George Smith, piano (head of music dept. at Syracuse University)
Grace Cronin, piano ("billed as "child pianist")
Guiomar Novaes, piano (Boston prem. Szanto's "Etude Orientale")
Harold Morris, piano
Harrison Potter, piano
Harry Farbman, violin
Hyman Rovinsky, piano (2 performances)
Jean Bedetti, cello (Arthur Fiedler, piano accomp.)
Jean Nolan, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Coleman, violin (Arthur Fiedler, accomp.)
Katherine Palmer, soprano (Meta Schumann, "at the piano")
Kathleen McAlister, soprano
Kibalchich Russian Symphonic Choir
Laura Littlefield, soprano (Mrs Dudley Fitts, piano accomp.)
Mildred Cobb, soprano (Jessie Fleming Vose, piano accomp.)
Moriz Rosenthal, pianist
Parish Williams, baritone
Paul Cherkassky, violinist (Arthur Fiedler, piano accomp.)
Rose Zulalian, contralto (Margaret Kent Hubbard, piano accomp.)
Suzanne Dabney, soprano (Sam Charles, piano accomp.)
The Roman Choir
Wellington Smith, baritone (Ellmer Zoller, piano accomp.)
William Richardson, baritone (Mrs. Maud Cuney Hare, "pianiste")


1925-26 Season

Albert Spalding, violin
Cecile Leweaux, contralto (Boston debut)
Cecilia Hansen, violin (Brochure: 'Looks like an Angel, plays like a man')
Clarita Sanchez, soprano (Lois Townsley, piano accomp.)
Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor
Denoe Leedy, piano (Boston prem. Aaron Copland's 'Passacaglia')
Dorothy Diamond, soprano (Jean Bedetti, cello, P. Bregor and Arthur Fiedler, pianists)
Dorothy George, mezzo-soprano
Durrell String Quartet with Augustus Zanzig, commentator - children's concert
Edward Johnson, tenor
Ellen Ballon, pianist
F. Motte-Lacroix, piano
Harold Samuel, piano (3 recitals, 2 all-J.S. Bach)
Heinrich Gebhard, pianist & Harrison Keller, viola and violin
Hildegarde Donaldson, violin (Ralph Linsley, piano accomp.)
Hulda Lashanska, soprano (Canceled, soprano Florence Austral in her place)
Irene Scharrer, piano
John Rosamond Johnson & Taylor Gordon (2 performances)
Jean Bedetti, cello (of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, piano accomp.)
Jean MacDonald, soprano (Ernest Harrison, piano accomp.)
John Corigliano, violin (Carl Lamson, pianist)
John Festyn Jenkins, bass-baritone (Jessie Fleming Vose, piano accomp.)
Josef Hoffman, piano
Joseph Lautner, tenor
Julius Risman, violin
   (Jesus Maria Sanoroma, assisting at the piano; Arthur Fiedler, piano accomp.)
London String Quartet
Margaret Matzenauer, contralto (from Metropolitan Opera Company)
Maria Kurenko,soprano
Marie Antoinette-Comeau, soprano
Marion Kingsbury, soprano ('Mrs. Fitts, accompanist')
Mischa Elman, violin
Reinald Werrenrath, baritone (Herbert Carrick, piano accomp.)
Richard Burgin, violin (Jesus Maria Sanroma, piano accomp.)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Shura Cherkassky, piano ('phenomenal boy pianist')
The Dayton Westminster Choir
Winifred Byrd, piano ("America's Pianist")
Youry Bilstin, cello (Carroll Hollister, piano accomp.)
Zlatko Balokovic, violin (Miriam Allen, piano, Boston debut)


1926-27 Season (partial listing)

Willard Amison, tenor
Alfred Blumen, piano
Reginald Boardman, piano
Paul Doguereau, piano
Povla Frijsh, soprano
Dorothy George, mezzo-soprano (Reginald Boardman, accomp.)
Betty Gray, contralto
Ursula Greville, soprano
Clara Haskil, piano
James Houghton, baritone
John Rosamond Johnson & Taylor Gordon
   (2 performances, Book of American Negro Spirituals tour)
Mischa Levitski, piano
George Liebling, piano
Ilse Niemack, violin and Isidore Gorn, piano
Isabel Richardson Molter, soprano
Harrison Potter, piano (2 recitals)
Gilbert Ross, violin
Russian Symphonic Choir
Georgina Shaylor, contralto
Irene Scharrer, piano
Stefan Sopkin, violin
Nina Tarasova and the Boston Sinfonietta (Russian folk songs)
Gil Valeriano, tenor


1927-1928 Season (partial listing)

Povla Frijsh, soprano
Lucilla de Vescovi, voice
James R. Houghton, baritone
Irma Dubova, soprano
Josef Hofmann, piano
Dorothy George, mezzo-soprano
Frederic Tillotson, piano
Albert Spalding, violin
Virginia Gardiner, soprano
Irene Scharrer, piano
Reinald Werrenrath, baritone
Baldassare Ferlazzo, violin
Leo Podolsky, piano
Russian Symphonic Choir
Anca Seidlova, piano
Paul Bregor, piano
Karl Neumann, tenor
Florence Judith Levy, piano
Harold Samuel, piano


1928-1929 Season (partial listing)

Joseph Lautner, tenor
Russian Symphonic Choir
London String Quartet
Durrell String Quartet
Fox-Burgin-Bedetti Trio
Boston Sinfonietta Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, cond.
Jean Bedetti, cello
Richard Burgin, violin
Guy Maier & Lee Pattison, piano duo
Mischa Levitsky, piano
Felix Fox, piano
Reinald Werrenrath, baritone
Fisk University Jubilee Singers
Royal Dadmun, baritone
Albert Spalding, violin
Tudor Davies, tenor
Margaret Matzenauer, contralto
Dorothy George, mezzo-soprano
Isabel Richardson Molter, soprano
Mary Lewis, soprano
Claudine Leeve, soprano
Ethel Hayden, soprano
Povla Frijsh, soprano
Maria Conde, coloratura
Theatre Guild
Earl Spicer, baritone
Dorothy Gordon, soprano
Nina Tarasova (Russian folk singer)
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
John Rosamond Johnson & Taylor Gordon, piano and vocals (spirituals)
Daisy Jean, cello/soprano


1930-31 Season (partial listing)

Winifred McBride, piano
Sibyl Webb, soprano
Angna Enters. dance-mime
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Royal Dadmun, baritone
Mischa Levitski, piano
Jose Iturbi, piano
Robert Simmons, tenor
Compinsky Trio
Povla Frijsh, soprano
Victor Chenkin, vocalist


1932-33 Season (partial listing)

Florence Austral, soprano
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Vienna Choir Boys
Mary Wigman and dancers
Fisk University Choir
Louise Bernhardt, contralto


1933-34 Season (partial listing)

Col. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (Les Sylphides, Les Presages, Cotillon)
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Shan-kar and his company of 15 dancers and musicians
Vienna Choir Boys
Agna Enters
Jan Smeterlin, piano
John Gruber, piano
Vera DeVilliers, contralto
Rachelle Shubow, piano
Artur Schnabel, piano


1934-35 Season (partial listing)

Roland Hayes, tenor
Adolf Busch, violin & Rudolf Serkin, piano
Griller Quartet
Kolisch Quartet
Sanroma-Burgin-Bedetti Trio
   (Jesus Maria Sanroma, piano; Richard Burgin, violin; Jean Bedetti, cello)
Vienna Choir Boys
John Gruber, piano
Albert Spalding, violin
Artur Schnabel, piano
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Beatrice Harrison, cello
Hans Weiner & Dance Group
Lily Pons, soprano


1935-36 Season

Povla Frijsh, soprano
Mischa Elman, violin
Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stowkowski, conductor
Jeno Swislowski, piano
Martha Graham
Marian Anderson, contralto
Cossacks
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Mary Garden, lecture/recital on Debussy (at Copley Plaza)
Ruth Posselt, violin
Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman and their NY Dance Group
Josef Hofman, piano

1936-37 Season (partial listing)

Felix Fox, piano
Russian Symphonic Choir
Marilyn Meyer, piano
John McCormack, tenor
Mischa Elman, violin
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Cossacks
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Jean Bedetti, cello
Frank Glazer, piano
San Carlo Opera Company


1937-1938 Season (partial listing)

Marian Anderson, contralto (Kosti Vehanen, piano; first date on US tour)
Boston String Quartet
Adolf Busch, violin & Rudolf Serkin, piano
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor, Jan Smeterlin, piano soloist
Alexandre Tcherepnine, piano
Uday Shan-kar & Company of Dancers & Musicians
Lambros Demetrios Callimahos, flute
Michael Strange (theater)
Don Cossacks