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1943-1944 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 6), Aug 5, 1943 - Nov 14, 1943
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1943-1944 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 6)
Dates
- Aug 5, 1943 - Nov 14, 1943
Subjects
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- City Center of Music and Drama Show All
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- City Center of Music and Drama
- Conductor profiles
- Czech music
- Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation
- Hyde Park
- Intermissions
- League of Composers
- Local #802
- Martinu: Memorial to Lidice
- Musicians Unity Club
- New Friends of Music
- Orchestra member profiles
- Polish music
- Press clippings, 1943-44
- Recording ban
- Rogers: Invasion
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
- U.S. Rubber Company
- Young People's Concerts Show Top 4
Names
- Arrau, Claudio
- Barlow, Howard
- Bartók, Béla
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Chavez, Carlos
- Corigliano, John, Sr.
- Downes, Olin
- Field, Marshall
- Francescatti, Zino
- Ganz, Rudolph
- Goodman, Saul
- Greinert, Emil
- Hofmann, Josef
- Istomin, Eugene
- Koussevitzky, Serge
- Leinsdorf, Erich
- Lincer, William
- Litvinoff, Maxim
- Martinu, Bohuslav
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Novotna, Jarmila
- Pennario, Leonard
- Pratt, Ruth (Mrs. John T.)
- Pretillo, James C.
- Robeson, Paul
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Rodzinski, Halina (Mrs. Artur)
- Rosenker, Michael
- Sawin, Edith
- Schuster, Joseph
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Shure, Leonard
- Sinatra, Frank
- Spivakovsky, Tossy
- Thomson, Virgil
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Van Praag, Nathan
- Wagner, Ernest
- Walter, Bruno
- Williams, Vaughan Show Top 4
Abstract
- Marshall Field calls for end of symphonic recording ban in letter proposal to Petrillo
- Petrillo announces first of free wartime concerts at Hyde Park, NY
- Conditions named by Field for free concert proposal
- Transportation shortage may force cancellations of Petrillo union-sponsored series of free concerts
- Martinu's newly composed second symphony dedicated to Czech workers in Cleveland, Ohio
- Mitropoulos comes to New York to conduct three Philharmonic Sunday afternoon broadcasts; Josef Hofmann is soloist on the first
- Appointment of Leonard Bernstein as assistant conductor
- Rodzinski rejects the idea of using popular music singers at symphonic concerts
- Mexican premiere of new piano concerto by Carlos Chavez
- Rodzinski swaps goats for bees on his farm in Stockbridge
- Bruno Walter to conduct Philharmonic's first performance of Bruckner Te Deum
- Philharmonic gets new assistant concertmaster Michael Rosenker
- Joseph Schuster announces plans to quit the Philharmonic at the end of the season to pursue his career as a soloist
- American premiere of Vaughn Willams' Fifth Symphony
- All-Czech programs planned to commemorate the Czech Republic's 25th anniversary
- Advertisement for the Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts
- Announcement of the League of Composers World War II commission project
- Philharmonic begins series of free war-time concerts
- Rodzinski's French Poodle, Pudla
- William Lincer is announced as new solo viola player to replace the ill Zoltan Kurthy
- Bruno Walter and Howard Barlow are the only guest conductors for the season
- Rodzinski makes his debut as permanent director of the Philharmonic
- Polish ambassador attends Rodzinski's opening concert
- Feedback to Rodzinski's debut concert is favorable, Olin Downes attributes defects to this being an orchestra with a significant number of new players and under new leadership
- Eugene Istomin wins the fourth annual contest from the Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation
- Bela Bartok attends the New York premiere of his second violin concerto conducted by Rodzinski
- Ruth Pratt hosts a tea at the Ritz-Carlton to honor the Rodzinskis
- World premiere of Bernard Rogers' Invasion as the first of the war-time works commissioned by the League of Composers
- The Philharmonic presents an all-Tchaikovsky program with Zino Francescatti as soloist
- Critics acknowledge the steady improvements being instilled in the orchestra by Rodzinski's leadership
- Rodzinski leads rehearsals of unknown scores, the goal being to expand his own repertory of new music and to encourage composers still attempting to establish their reputations
- Librarian Emil Greinert cherishes memories, tales of Toscanini and other conductors since 1891
- The personality of three orchestras: Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic compared by Virgil Thomson
- Response from Olin Downes to Alfred Frankenstein's article, "The Plight of the American Composer"
- Jarmila Novotna is soloist with the Philharmonic as part of all-Czech program
- Bruno Walter conducts the New York premiere of Miklos Rozsa's Theme, Variations, and Finale
- The Philharmonic performs at the inauguration of The City Center of Music and Drama with tickets priced at just one dollar
- Edith Sawin as farmer and chairman of the Young People's Concerts
- CBS gets the broadcast rights to the first American performance of Shostakovich's eighth symphony
- Toscanini opens the NBC Symphony's winter series
- Variations in the seating arrangements of the orchestra
- Halina Rodzinski answers questions about the plans of Polish refugees in New York following the war
- Rudolph Ganz opens the twenty-first season the Young People's Concerts
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1943-1944 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 6), 5 Aug 1943 - 14 Nov 1943, Folder 555-044-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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