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Communications/Public Relations > Press Clippings
1956-57 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 3), Sep 1, 1956 - Apr 17, 1957
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- 555-070-01
Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1956-57 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 3)
Dates
- Sep 1, 1956 - Apr 17, 1957
Subjects
- Benefit concerts
- Conductor profiles
- Jazz
- Orchestra member profiles
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- American Symphony Orchestra League
- Cantelli death
- Chicago Lyric Opera Company
- Contemporary music
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
- Emmys
- Israel Philharmonic
- Local #802
- Metropolitan Opera House
- Musical Courier
- Opera
- Press clippings, 1956-57
- Schuman: New England Triptych
- Town Hall
- YPC: Young People's Concert Show Top 4
Names
- Autori, Franco
- Baccaloni, Salvatore
- Barenboim, Daniel
- Bartók, Béla
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Brailowsky, Alexander
- Callas, Maria
- Cantelli, Guido
- Cluytens, André
- Davis, Miles
- Del Monaco, Mario
- Dubow, Marilyn
- Ellington, Duke
- Gould, Glenn
- Hampton, Lionel
- Kostelanetz, Andre
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Paray, Paul
- Pelletier, Wilfrid
- Piatigorsky, Gregor
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Schuman, William
- Solti, Georg
- Stern, Isaac
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Tebaldi, Renata
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- Walter, Bruno
- Zirato, Bruno Show Top 4
Abstract
- Bruno Walter celebrates his 80th birthday, announces retirement from his regular guest conductor appearances with the Philharmonic
- Announcement that Bernstein will co-direct the Philharmonic, beginning in the 1957-58 season, at the request of Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Guests conductors for the season to include Georg Solti, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Franco Autori, Paul Paray, and André Cluytens
- Bruno Walter survives heart attack
- Profile of Thomas Schippers
- Musical Courier article, "The Psychosomatics of Orchestral Conducting"
- Dimitri Mitropoulos speaks at the annual American Symphony Orchestra League convention in Providence, Rhode Island
- Mitropoulos conducts a series of concerts at Town Hall sponsored by the Jazz and Classical Music Society, featuring Miles Davis, Percy Heath, J.J. Johnson, Connie Kay, and John Lewis; The concerts are a mix of jazz, contemporary, and classical music
- Tenor, Mario Del Monaco's allergy to horses disrupts Chicago Lyric Opera Company's production of Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West"
- Mitropoulos conducts Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House, with Renata Tebaldi, Leonard Warren, Jussi Bjoerling, and Salvatore Baccaloni
- World premiere of Lionel Hampton's "King David" presented by Local 802 of the AFM, directed by Mitropoulos
- Maria Callas performs as Tosca at The Metropolitan Opera House; Mitropoulos conducts
- Leopold Stokowski conducts benefit concert for United Nations Symphony Orchestra and Music Institute; Daniel Barenboim makes New York debut
- Verdi's Ernani is performed at the Met for the first time in 27 years
- Dimirti Mitropoulos shares conducting role with Duke Ellington at "Music for Moderns" program at Town Hall
- Early advertisement for Bruno Walter's upcoming autobiography, here titled "A Musician Looks Back;" The book was relased in 1946 under the title "Themes and Variations"
- Opinion piece calling for a longer Philharmonic season
- State Department's suspension of cultural relations with Russia does not impact the first American tour of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra or the Philadelphia Orchestra's tour of Eastern Europe
- Mitropoulos conducts Madama Butterfly and Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera
- Mitropoulos honored with the Orfeo d'Oro (Golden Orpheus) by the City of Mantua, Italy, their award for conductor of the year
- Time magazine cover and article featuring a painting of Leonard Bernstein by Henry Koerner
- Leonard Bernstein's relevised lecture "History of Musical Comedy" on "Omnibus" is nominated for an Emmy for best single program of the year; Bernstein wins Emmy for Best Musical Contribution for television
- Andre Kostelanetz is the conductor for a series of four special concerts with the Philharmonic
- New York premiere of William Schuman's "New England Triptych," commissioned by Kostelanetz
- Plans for Bernstein to be guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic on October 2, 1957; The concert will feature Arthur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, and Gregor Piatigorsky
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1956-57 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 3), 1 Sep 1956 - 17 Apr 1957, Folder 555-070-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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