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1944 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), Jul 7, 1944 - Aug 24, 1944
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- 555-046-03
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1944 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- Jul 7, 1944 - Aug 24, 1944
Subjects
- All-Gershwin program
- Armed Forces
- Army and Navy Night
- Attendance
- Ballet
- Barrymore: Partita
- Bizet: Carmen
- Blitzstein: Freedom Morning
- French Music
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Metropolitan Opera
- Orchestra Member Profiles
- Outdoor Concerts
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1944
- Radio Broadcasts
- Schenk: Stadium March
- Stadium Concerts
- Stavinsky: Four Norwegian Moods
- Student tickets
- WNYC
- World War II Show Top 4
Names
- Amans, John
- Anderson, Marian
- Barrymore, Lionel
- Berini, Mario
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Castagna, Bruna
- Dolin, Anton
- Dorati, Antal
- Glaz, Herta
- Golschmann, Vladimir
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Hofmann, Josef
- Iturbi, Amparo
- Jarmel, Dorle
- Johnson, Thor
- Kreisler, Fritz
- Kurtz, Efrem
- Labate, Bruno
- Lewisohn, Sam A.
- Lhévinne, Josef
- List, Eugene
- Lowe, Jack
- Maazel, Lorin
- Markova, Alicia
- Milstein, Nathan
- Moore, Grace
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
- Rosenker, Michael
- Sevitzky, Fabien
- Slavenska, Mia
- Smallens, Alexander
- Stolz, Robert
- Strasfogel, Ignace
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Tourel, Jennie
- Whittemore, Arthur Show Top 4
Abstract
- Ballet program announced with Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin
- Vladimir Golschmann ends tenure as guest conductor, passes baton to Efrem Kurtz
- Marian Anderson gives annual solo performance at the Stadium with Efrem Kurtz conducting
- General Charles de Gaulle, president of the French Committee of National Liberation, attends Marian Anderson's performance with Mayor LaGuardia, Marian Anderson is joined by the crowd in a rendition of La Marseillaise
- Kurtz conducts three works by Stravinsky, including the New York premiere of "Four Norwegian Moods"
- Leonard Bernstein makes his Lewisohn Stadium debut, presents a program featuring Nathan Milstein as soloist on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E-minor
- After Dorle Jarmel expresses trepidation in playing the violin for Toscanini, Toscanini replies, "That shouldn't make any difference. I play the cello poorly, and I play for Toscanini."
- Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin dance in a combined ballet-symphony program at Lewisohn Stadium, with Antal Dorati conducting
- Ballet drawsa crowd of 22,000, matching the Marian Anderson performance one week prior
- Alexander Smallens conducts the Philharmonic in an all-Tchaikovsky program
- Stadium War-Time Season
- Profile of Minnie Guggenheimer in The New York Times Magazine
- Students receive half-price tickets at "N.Y.U. Night" at Lewisohn Stadium
- Bernstein conducts his own work, the Jeremiah Symphony, at the Staidum with Jennie Troubel, mezzo-soprano from the Metropolitan, as soloist
- Opera is a success at the Stadium concerts with performances of "Aida" and "Traviata"
- Robert Stolz leads the Philharmonic is a festival of Viennese music with vocal performances from Hertha Glaz and Mario Berini
- "Army and Navy Night," dedicated to the Allied forces overseas, is offered as part of the sixth week of Stadium Concerts, conducted by Warrant Officer Thor Johnson
- Servicemen Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe are the featured soloist on the Armed Forces program
- Bruna Castagna returns for the second time in the season to sing the title role of Bizet's Carmen
- Ignace Strasfogel, pianist of the Philharmonic, adopts the role of conductor; Amparo Iturbi closes program with a performance of Liszt's Fantasia on Hungarian Melodies for Piano and Orchestra
- Lionel Barrymore makes his debut as a symphonic composer
- Reflections on the opening weeks of the Stadium season
- Gala ballet program scheduled at Lewisohn Stadium with Mia Slavenska, Leonide Massine, Igor Youskevitch, Yura Lazovski, and a couple dancers from Miss Slavenska's company
- Sgt. Eugene List performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as part of an Army and Navy Night program dedicated to the Allied troops
- Jascha Heifetz plays at Lewisohn Stadium in his first appearance back in New York after a tour of military bases in Italy and North Africa
- Lorin Maazel conducts the New York Philharmonic at 14
- Fabien Sevitsky conducts in his debut with the Philharmonic and his debut at the Stadium, Josef Lhévinne adds familiarity to the program as a soloist
- Grace Moore makes her Stadium debut in the final week of the season
- Smallens conducts the New York premiere of Marc Blitzstein's Symphonic Poem, "Freedom Morning"
- Grace Moore is called by the audience for five encores on her debut
- The Philharmonic observes the 20th anniversary of WNYC
- Total attendance for the season sees an increase of close to 50,000 over the 1943 season
- A new work by Robert C. Schenk, Stadium March, is dedicated to Minnie Guggenheimer and performed at Lewisohn Stadium in the final concert of the season
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1944 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 7 Jul 1944 - 24 Aug 1944, Folder 555-046-03, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/2fe39985-fc3e-455d-be15-871fa2965006-0.1
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/2fe39985-fc3e-455d-be15-871fa2965006-0.1