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1937-38 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), Jan 21, 1938 - Jun 21, 1938
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- 555-028-02
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1937-38 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- Jan 21, 1938 - Jun 21, 1938
Subjects
- Barber: School for Scandal Overture
- Conductor Profiles
- Delius: Appalachia
- Ireland: London Overture Show All
- Barber: School for Scandal Overture
- Conductor Profiles
- Delius: Appalachia
- Ireland: London Overture
- Malpiero: Symphony No. 2 (Elegiaca)
- May Day Music Festival
- Metropolitan Opera
- New York World's Fair, 1939-40
- Pension Fund
- Philharmonic-Symphony League
- Press Clippings, 1937-38
- Purcell: The Fairy Queen
- Read: Symphony No. 1 in A minor
- Schola Cantorum
- Season Planning, 1938-39
- Tailleferre: Violin Concerto Show Top 4
Names
- Astor, Helen (Mrs. Vincent)
- Barbirolli, John
- Bonelli, Richard
- Boynet, Emma
- Bustabo, Guila
- Casadesus, Robert
- Chasins, Abram
- Enesco, Georges
- Flagstad, Kirsten
- Ganz, Rudolph
- Glantz, Harry
- Haubiel, Charles
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Hofmann, Josef
- Jenkel, Henry
- Lawrence, Marjorie
- Levitzki, Mischa
- List, Eugene
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Monteux, Pierre
- Pauly, Rose
- Piastro, Mishel
- Piatigorsky, Gregor
- Porter, Quincy
- Pratt, Ruth (Mrs. John T.)
- Read, Gardner
- Reiter, Xavier [Xaver]
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Samaroff, Olga
- Sanders, Robert
- Schelling, Ernest
- Schelling, Lucie (Mrs. Ernest Schelling)
- Schuster, Joseph
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Szigeti, Joseph
- Taylor, Deems
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Zimbalist, Efrem Show Top 4
Abstract
- Georges Enesco featured as guest conductor and offers three Romanian works their American premieres: Enesco's own Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11*, Burial at the Cemetery of the Poor by Rogalski, and "Dance in C major, Op. 3, No. 2 from Three Symphonic Tableaux by Andrico
- First cellist Joseph Schuster performs Dvorak and Haydn concertos
- Enesco conducts selections from Wagner operas
- Barbirolli's return to the Philharmonic is delayed due to travel issues; Enesco's engagement is extended
- Advertisement for the newly formed Philharmonic-Symphont League, Ruth (Mrs. John T.) Pratt, chairman
- Passing of Lucie Schelling, philanthropist and wife of Ernest Schelling
- First place in the Philharmonic Symphony's American Composer Contest is split between two winners, Charles Haubiel and Robert Sanders
- 32 children, ages 6 to 15, receive awards for music from the Philharmonic
- Death of Henry Jenkel, Philharmonic bassist
- Barbirolli conducts Philharmonic premiere of excerpts from "The Fairy Queen" by Purcell
- Deems Taylor prepares concert performance of scenes from his opera "Peter Ibbetson"
- Profile on Ruth Pratt, former representative now chairman of the new Philharmonic-Symphony League
- American premiere of Barber's School for Scandal Overture
- Philharmonic debut of Quincy Porter, who will conduct the premiere of his own first symphony
- Profile of composer-pianist Abram Chasins, who will have his Philharmonic debut as soloist in his own Second Piano Concerto
- May Day Music Festival features combined chorus of 400 and soloists from the Metropolitan Opera to join Philharmonic and costumed dancers on program
- Article with several quotes from John Barbirolli about his life, aspirations, and opinions; "I've never led a jazz orchestra. Blues are all right but I hate swing."; "I get pretty tired, but I can go on dead tired and hear the music and the tiredness all goes." ;"I don't eat much during the day. But after a concert I'll eat anything. The best thing of all: noodles."
- New York premieres of Malipiero's Symphony No. 2 ("Elegiaca"), Delius's Appalachia, and Ireland's London Overture
- Preview for the 1939 World's Fair
- Death of former Philharmonic horn player Xavier Reiter
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1937-38 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 21 Jan 1938 - 21 Jun 1938, Folder 555-028-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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