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1948-49 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), Jan 15, 1949 - May 31, 1949
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- 555-055-02
Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1948-49 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- Jan 15, 1949 - May 31, 1949
Subjects
- 1948 Fall Tour (U.S.)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 (Eroica)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Ode to Joy)
- Benefit Concerts Show All
- 1948 Fall Tour (U.S.)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 (Eroica)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Ode to Joy)
- Benefit Concerts
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Columbia Records, Inc.
- Conductor Profiles
- Dallas Symphony
- Debussy/Stokowski: La Cathedrale Engloutie
- Haydn: Symphony No. 53 in D
- Herrmann: The Devil and Daniel Webster
- Honegger: Symphony No. 4
- Juilliard School Newspaper
- Menotti: Piano Concerto in F major
- Press Clippings, 1948-49
- Rodgers and Hammerstein: South Pacific
- Symphonic Boom, by Merle Armitage
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B-minor (Pathetique)
- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6
- Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Show Top 4
Names
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Corigliano, John
- Curzon, Clifford
- Downes, Olin
- Fassett, James
- Firkusny, Rudolf
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II
- Harrell, Mack
- Hendl, Walter
- Herrmann, Bernard
- Hess, Myra
- Janis, Byron
- Jobin, Raoul
- Kapell, William
- Kolodin, Irving
- Menotti, Gian Carlo
- Merriman, Nan
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Morini, Erica
- Munch, Charles
- Neveu, Ginette
- Nies-Berger, Edouard
- Rodgers, Richard
- Rose, Leonard
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Steber, Eleanor
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Walter, Bruno
- Wechsberg, Joseph Show Top 4
Abstract
- CBS sponsors the New York Philharmonic Radio Broadcasts
- Depression causes Philharmonic to raise ticket prices
- New York Philharmonic's deficit hits \$109,190
- Appointment of Leopold Stokowski and Dimitri Mitropoulos as co-regular conductors for 1949-50 season
- First New York performance of Menotti's Piano Concerto played by Rudolph Firkusny
- First New York performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 6 conducted by Leopold Stokowski
- Debut of Byron Janis playing Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F
- Article on New York Philharmonic Broadcasts in Music News, February 1949, including a letter by James Fassett, Supervisor of Music, Columbia Broadcasting System
- Dame Myra Hess plays the Brahms D-Minor Piano Concerto to mixed reviews using the musical score
- Assistant Conductor Walter Hendl named conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Beethoven Cycle conducted by Bruno Walter to end his tenure as Musical Adviser
- William Kapell plays Rachmaninoff's and Prokfiev's third piano concertos under Stokowski to great acclaim as well as criticism from reviewers
- Stokowski plays his arrangement of Debussy's La Cathedral Engloutie
- Stokowski conducts Bernard Herrmann's Suite from The Devil and Daniel Webster, taken from the film "All That Money Can Buy"
- Strong criticism of Leopold Stokowski's exaggerted and unorthodox conducting of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony
- Critical analysis of the performace history of Conductor Leopold Stokowski by Irving Kolodin on the occasions of Stokowski's appointment a co-regular conductor of the New York Philharmonic
- First performance by the Philharmonic of Haydn's Symphony No. 53 in D ("Imperial") under Leopold Stokowski
- Review by Brooks Atkinson of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific"
- Great praise for Bruno Walter's performances of the Beethoven Symphonies, Overtures and selected Concertos
- Performance of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony led by Bruno Walter
- Contrasting performances of Beethoven's "Eroica" conducted within weeks by Bruno Walter with the Philharmonic and Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony
- Tremendous praise for Clifford Curzon's performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto under Bruno Walter
- Performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto under Bruno Walter
- Attendance by Dimitri Shostakovich at a Philharmonic concert conducted by Leopold Stokowski
-,John Corigliano plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Leopold Stokowski conducting
- Two week post-season tour conducted by Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski and Leonard Bernstein
- Walter Hendl appointed Music Director of the Dallas Symphoniy
- Bruno Walter presented with an original score of Beethoven's "Egmont" Overture and a collection of Beethoven Quartets after completing two years as Musical Adviser to the Philharmonic at the final concert of his Beethoven Cycle
- Praise for Bruno Walter's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Eleanor Steber, Nan Merriman, Mack Harrell and Raoul Jobin as soloists
- Criticism by Virgil Thomson of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which Thomson feels is seriously flawed
- Article "Musicians Have to be Crazy" by Joseph Wechsberg in The Saturday Evening Post
- Reviews of Philharmonic on tour
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1948-49 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 15 Jan 1949 - 31 May 1949, Folder 555-055-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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