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1927 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), Jul 25, 1927 - Jan 22, 1928
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- 555-010-03
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1927 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- Jul 25, 1927 - Jan 22, 1928
Subjects
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
- Conductor Profiles
- Converse: Flivver Ten Million
- Dunn: We
- Fokine Ballet
- Franck: Le chasseur maudit ("The Accursed Huntsman")
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
- Holst: The Planets
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Mendelssohn: Elijah
- Portland Symphony Orchestra (Oregon)
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1927
- Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade
- Schumann/Stock: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish")
- Skilton: Suite Primeval
- Taylor: Through the Looking Glass
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 Show Top 4
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Abstract
- All-Beethoven Program
- George Gershwin serves as soloist in his own works at Stadium Concert
- Record crowd for a concert featuring music by George Gershwin, played by the composer
- Bertha Vandenberg is the only woman in the orchestra for Stadium Concerts
- Fokine Ballet during 1927 Stadium Season
- Excellent reception for concerts conducted by Frederick Stock
- "All-Beethoven concert delights Stadium throng"
- Reviewers found performance of Gershwin Concerto "lifeless"
- First performance at Stadium of Gershwin's Piano Concerto and Rhapsody in Blue
- Ovations greet performances of Beethoven 9th under Willem van Hoogstraten
- Novelties at Stadium Concerts
- Transcription by Frederick Stock of Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony
- Performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah with a chorus of 200
- Speical praise for tenor Daniel Beddoe in Elijah
- Ovation for conductor Pierre Monteux's performances
- Arnold Volpe conducts three programs with the Fokine Ballet featuring Vera Fokina, Michel Fokine and Helene Denizon
- Monteux conducts Stravinsky's Petrouchka from proof sheets of the original score
- Premiere of We by James Philip Dunn, in tribute to Chales Lindbergh and his solo trans-Atlantic flight
- Substitution of Brahms Symphony No. 3 for Bruckner's Symphony No. 7
- Tabulation of performances in Stadium Concerts 1927 by composer, number of works performed, and number of times; Top composers in Stadium Concert Season: Wagner, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky
- Olin Downes article on Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the New York Philharmonic in January 1928
- Undated review of a performance many years later of the Beethoven Ninth by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony erroneously included in this scrapbook
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1927 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 25 Jul 1927 - 22 Jan 1928, Folder 555-010-03, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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