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1928 Stadium Scrapbook, Apr 4, 1928 - Aug 31, 1928
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1928 Stadium Scrapbook
Dates
- Apr 4, 1928 - Aug 31, 1928
Subjects
- Choral Symphony Society of New York
- City College of New York
- Conductor Profiles
- Dancers
- Denishawn Dancers
- Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
- German Music
- Guest Conductors
- Hall Johnson Negro Choir
- Hungarian Music
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Managerial Restrictions
- Opera
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1928
- Radio Broadcasts
- Russian Music
- Soloists
- Stadium Concerts
- The Duncan Dancers
- Theremin
- Theremin, Leon: Ether Music Show Top 4
Names
- Coates, Albert
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Duncan, Anna
- Duncan, Isadora
- Elgar, Edward
- Elwyn, Robert
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Hall, Natalie
- Hanson, Harold
- Holmes, Bettie F. (Mrs. Christian R.)
- Hoogstraten, Willem van
- Houston, George Fleming
- Johnson, Hall
- Judson, Arthur
- Lange, Hans
- Langley, Allan Lincoln
- Lewisohn, Adolph
- Molinari, Bernardino
- Oelheim, Helen
- St. Denis, Ruth
- Theremin, Leon
- Urchs, Ernest Show Top 4
Abstract
- Albert Coates and Bernardino Molinari announced as guest conductors for 11th season of Lewisohn Stadium concerts
- Minnie Guggenheimer announces that the officiating orchestra will be the newly formed Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
- The stadium concerts mark the debut of the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra after the absorption of the New York Symphony Society by the Philharmonic Orchestra
- Soloists for the stadium concerts will be engaged independently, as they have been for the previous three seasons
- Stadium Concerts aired on radio
- Four artists from the American Opera Company, Natalie Hall, Helen Oelheim, George Fleming Houston, and Harold Hanson, are engaged to sing in the concert version of "Faust"
- Van Hoogstraten conducts opening night of stadium season in the Great Hall of City College after rain forces the concert indoors
- Stadium debut of John Alden Carpenter's bellet moderne, "Skyscrapers"
- Adolph Lewisohn hosts annual pre-concert dinner
- Local Wisconsin radio station added to the WEAF radio network so that President Calvin Coolidge will be able to listen to the Saturday broadcasts of the Stadium concerts
- Philharmonic-Society presents German program, featuring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
- Van Hoogstraten conducts Russian program
- Kodaly's "Hary Janos" is played at Stadium following its New York debut with the Philharmonic during their previous subscription season
- Rain threatens concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, several performances are moved indoors
- Siegfried's Apotheosis, from "Gotterdamerung" played in memory of Ernest Urchs
- Debut of Allan Lincoln Langley's waltz, "Alone," conducted by the composer
- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is presented in full at Lewisohn Stadium with a chorus from the Choral Symphony Society of New York; overall praise for the performance, but there is some criticism in the press of the chorus and vocal soloists
- Strauss-only program at the stadium concerts
- Profiles of Albert Coates as he begins his stay as guest conductor
- Van Hoogstraten conducts first stadium performance of Bruckner's Symphony No.4, "Romantic"
- Radio broadcast of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is cut short due to managerial restrictions preventing the broacast of Louise Lerch's voice
- The Hall Johnson Choir, performing for one of the largest audiences in the history of the Stadium concerts, is interrupted by rain in their first appearance of the season; program is repeated for an audience of 12,000
- Preview and background on Sir Edward Elgar's "Enigma" Variations for orchestra
- Praise for the Philharmonic from Albert Coates after his final concert as guest conductor, "the most glorious orchestra which I have had to deal with"
- Bernardino Molinari succeeds Coates as guest conductor; receives ovation from audience
- Albert Coates completes a one-act opera, to be premiered in Munich in the coming season
- Italian Consul-General to the United States, Emennele Grazzi, addresses audience at Molinari's first appearance
- Anna Duncan, adopted daughter of Isadora Duncan, and her danceers make their debut at Lewisohn Stadium in front of a record crowd of 20,000; Hans Lange conducts
- Van Hoogstraten resumes baton from Molinari, presents all-Schubert program
- Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and the Denishawn Dancers perform for three consecutive evenings
- Profesor Leon Theremin demonstrates his "Thermin-Vox" for the first time in concert
- Stadium season closes with a "Request" concert, for which the program is chosen by votes taken among the audience
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1928 Stadium Scrapbook, 4 Apr 1928 - 31 Aug 1928, Folder 555-011-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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