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1943-1944 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 6), Nov 15, 1943 - Jan 24, 1944
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1943-1944 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 6)
Dates
- Nov 15, 1943 - Jan 24, 1944
Subjects
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- Berezowsky: Christmas Festival Overture
- Berezowsky: Soldier on the Town
- Bernstein Debut Show All
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- Berezowsky: Christmas Festival Overture
- Berezowsky: Soldier on the Town
- Bernstein Debut
- Bohuslav: Memorial to Lidice
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Carpenter: The Anxious Bugler
- City Center of Music and Drama
- Conductor profiles
- Czech music
- Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation
- Jazz
- League of Composers
- Orchestra member profiles
- Polish music
- Press clippings, 1943-44
- Recording ban
- Rodzinski debut
- Rogers: Invasion
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
- Still: In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
- Taylor: A Christmas Overture Show Top 4
Names
- Barlow, Howard
- Berezowsky, Nicolai
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Casadesus, Robert
- Corigliano, John, Sr.
- Downes, Olin
- Falcone, Mario
- Field, Marshall
- Francescatti, Zino
- Ganz, Rudolph
- Goodman, Saul
- Greinert, Emil
- Herrmann, Bernard
- Hofmann, Josef
- Horowitz, Vladimir
- Hull, Helen Huntington
- Istomin, Eugene
- Koussevitzky, Serge
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- Leinsdorf, Erich
- Lincer, William
- Litvinoff, Maxim
- Martinu, Bohuslav
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Monath, Hortense
- Morini, Erica
- Pennario, Leonard
- Pretillo, James C.
- Price, Walter W.
- Rabin, George
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Rosenker, Michael
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Schuster, Joseph
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Sinatra, Frank
- Spalding, Albert
- Spivakovsky, Tossy
- Still, William Grant
- Taylor, Deems
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Wagner, Ernest
- Walter, Bruno Show Top 4
Abstract
- Leonard Bernstein makes his Philharmonic debut, replacing Bruno Walter with only a few hours notice after Walter fell ill. Bernstein becomes the youngest man to conduct a Philharmonic-Symphony subscription concert
- Background pieces on Bernstein folowing his debut
- First of Rodzinski's "reading rehearsals for contemporary music," conducted by Bernstein for an audience of nineteen people
- World premiere of John Alden Carpenter's The Anxious Bugler, commissioned by the League of Composers as part of their initiative to produce works inspired by the war
- Pvt. Leonard Pennario is soloist on the Liszt E flat concerto
- Eugene Istomin, winner of the Leventritt Award, makes his Philharmonic debut at Carnegie Hall as soloist on Brahms' Second Piano Concerto
- Obituary for Walter Winston Price, former member of the Philharmonic Board of Directors
- World premiere of Nicolai Berezowsky's Soldier on the Town as part of the World War II commission
- Huge attendance at Carnegie Hall to hear Vladimir Horowitz as soloist on Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto
- Shostakovich sells the broadcast rights to the first American performance of his eighth symphony to CBS for ten thousand dollars; CBS in turn gives broadcast honors to Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic
- Philharmonic present concerts dedicated to "the suffering of the oppressed," victims of the Nazis and Facist tyranny around the world; Bernstein conducts Bloch's Three Jewish Poems while Rodzinski leads Mahler's Symphony No. 2 on the second half of the program
- Strong praise for Erica Morini for her performance of Glazunoff's Concerto in A minor
- William Lincer appointed solo viola of the Philharmonic
- Profile on Joseph Schuster, cellist, including the story of how he met his wife
- Rodzinski conducts the Philharmonic at Kingston Municipal Auditorium in a free Civilian Morale concert, organized by the American Federation of Musicians
- Koussevitsky leads the Boston Symphony in their opening concert at Carnegie Hall; Bernstein in attendence
- Rudolph Ganz opens the new season of Young People's Concerts
- Leonard Bernstein conducts a lively performance of the Star Spangled Banner before conducting Bloch's Three Jewish Poems
- Artur Rodzinski is awarded the Mahler Medal by the Bruckner Society
- Rodzinski swaps goats for bees on his farm in Stockbridge
- Disappearance of Dr. Boris Dubinsky reported to the police; The composer was scheduled to direct the Philharmonic in the performance of his own work in March, 1944
- Mayor La Guardia opens the New York City Center of Music and Drama
- A New York Philharmonic audience poll on "my favorite symphony" reveals conservative tastes, with Beethoven receiving the most votes, Brahms the second, and Schubert the third
- John Corigliano's missing dog, Lucky, is found after a 14-hour search
- Rodzinski, with Arthur Rubinstein as soloist, leads the orchestra in a concert to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the republic of Poland
- Howard Barlow leads the orchestra in the premieres of Christmas works from Deems Taylor and Nicolai Berezowsky
- Metropolitan Opera asks public for a three-hundred-thousand dollar fund to cover its deficit
- Helen Huntington Hull hosts a supper to honor guest conductor Howard Barlow
- Bernard Herrmann leads the orchestra in the premiere of his own For the Fallen; Bernstein conducts the remainder of the program in replace of Howard Barlow; Albert Spalding is soloist on the Beethoven violin concerto
- Roszinski conducts the premiere of Roy Harris' March in Time of War as part of the League of Composers WWII commission
- Premiere of William Grant Still's In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers who Who Died for Democracy
- Rodzinski calls boogie-woogie "one of the greatest causes of delinquency among American youth today," calls fans of Sinatra "pitiful cases"; Sinatra calls claims by Rodzinski "nuts"
- LIFE magazine profile of Arturo Toscanini
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1943-1944 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 6), 15 Nov 1943 - 24 Jan 1944, Folder 555-044-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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