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1956 Stadium Scrapbook, Mar 18, 1956 - Aug 3, 1956
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1956 Stadium Scrapbook
Dates
- Mar 18, 1956 - Aug 3, 1956
Subjects
- Airplanes
- All-American Program
- All-Beethoven Program
- All-French Program
- All-Stars
- All-Tchaikovsky Program
- American Guild of Organists
- Amplification
- Ballet Gala
- Beethoven-Brahms Program
- Camera Night
- Cole Porter Night
- Deficit
- Delamarter: Organ Concerto
- Folk Music
- Gala Fourth of July Patriotic
- Gala Opening Concert
- Gershwin Night
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Gyrophonic
- Half-Price Tickets
- Handel-Wood: Hallelujah Concerto
- Italian Night
- Jazz Jamboree
- Kersey, Howard
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Lincoln Square
- Louis Armstrong
- Milhaud: Piano Concerto No. 5
- New York Pops
- New York Summer Festival
- Organ
- Organ Night
- Organist's Guild
- Porgy and Bess
- Press Clippings, 1956-57
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1957
- Program
- Richard and Johann Strauss Night
- Rigoletto
- Rodgers-Hammerstein Night
- Russian Night
- Saga of Satchmo
- Soviet
- Sponsorship
- St. Louis Blues
- Stadium Concert
- Stadium Concerts Inc.
- Summer Festival
- Thalben-Ball, George
- WNYC
- Women's Cultural Division Show Top 4
Names
- Allers, Franz
- Alonso, Alicia
- Andersen. Stell
- Anderson, Marian
- Antonini, Alfredo
- Armstrong, Louis
- Ballets russes de Monte Carlo
- Barry, Robert
- Belafonte, Harry
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Borowska, Irina
- Boutnikoff, Ivan
- Brook, Paige
- Brubeck, Dave
- Calder, Crane
- Chouteau, Yvonne
- Coci, Claire
- Cone, Harold
- Davy, Gloria
- Deering, Henri
- Dell'Isola, Salvatore
- Della Chiesa, Vivian
- Dickey, Annamary
- Dubow, Marilyn
- Dunn, Mignon
- Dyer-Bennett, Richard
- Eglevsky, André
- Elman, Mischa
- Farrell, Eileen
- Francescatti, Zino
- Franklin, Frederic
- Golschmann, Vladimir
- Gordon, Marjorie
- Hunt, Lois
- Kings Point Glee Club
- Lewis, Brenda
- Lipman, Samuel
- Lipton, Martha
- Lorin, Will
- Massey, Raymond
- Milhaud, Darius
- Mitchell, Howard
- Monteux, Pierre
- Morini, Erica
- Moscona, Nicola
- Murrow, Edward R.
- New York City Ballet
- New York Concert Choir
- Novak, Nina
- Oratorio Society of New York
- Parisot, Aldo
- Price, Leontyne
- Rosen, Joel
- Rosenker, Michael
- Rosenstock, Milton
- Rounseville, Robert
- Rudel, Julius
- Rupp, Franz
- Sarnoff, Dorothy
- Scherman, Thomas
- Searle, W. Frederic
- Sills, Beverly
- Smallens, Alexander
- Spivakovsky, Tossy
- Strickland, William
- Sydney, Lorna
- Tabbert, William
- Tallchief, Maria
- Thalben-Ball, George
- Thibault, Conrad
- Tucker, Richard
- Turner, Claramae
- Tyven, Gertrude
- Uninsky, Alexander
- Vichey, Luben
- Warfield, William
- Warren, Leonard
- Wild, Earl
- Wright, Martha
- Youskevitch, Igor Show Top 4
Abstract
- New York Philharmonic celebrates the 39th Stadium Season
- Ballet incorporated in Stadium Concerts
- Louis Armstrong, 57th Birthday
- World premiere of Milhaud's Piano Concerto No. 5
- Concerto honoring the 60th anniversary national convention of the American Guild of Organists
- Camera Night featuring \$1500 worth of prizes for amateur photographers
- First joint concert of Armstrong and Brubeck
- Mitchell, Strickland have Stadium Concerts conducting debuts
- Stadium Symphony Orchestra comprised of Philharmonic-Symphony musicians
- Large number of summer festivals being announced as early as mid-March
- Despite rising costs, minimum price seats to remain unchanged
- Soviet artists sought for summer concert roster, box office draw
- Stadium Concerts will feature organ soloists for first time in its history
- Stadium debuts by Cone, Lipman, Unisky, Brook, Gordon, Sills, Dunn, Barry, Tabbert, Russell, and Vichey
- Two manual Allen electronic organ to be installed instead of pipe organ at Lewisohn Stadium
- First Jazz concert ever at Lewisohn Stadium
- Music Around the Calendar
- Trend towards light music
- Shrinking attendance reduced Stadium Concerts from eight to six weeks
- Tchaikovsky and Beethoven honored with two concerts each
- Parking available for Stadium Concerts patrons
- Preparing for Season Opening
- Harry Belafonte has throat operation
- Diverse programs
- 15,000 attend opening of 39th Stadium Concerts season
- Harlem to welcome Stadium Symphony
- All-Tchaikovsky program cancelled due to wet grounds
- Dog fight
- Ballet Russe draws 16,000
- Parakeet
- Gershwin Memorial Concert for an orchestral work open to young American composers
- Pipe organ installation in apartment featured for Claire Coci interview
- First time organ soloists in Lewisohn Stadium
- U.S. Premiere of Wood's version of Handel organ concerto
- New York premiere of Delamarter concerto
- Thalben-Ball composed and played his own cadenzas
- Four rotating hi-fi speakers for installed stadium organ
- Symphonic works featuring contemporary American composers give patriotic flavor to holiday week
- Special encore played for camera night
- Independence Day concert rained out; rain date featured split program
- Harry Belafonte concert breaks all-time attendance record: 25,000
- First all-jazz concert in Stadium Concert's history
- Audience tastes shifting
- Alfredo Antonini's new arrangement of "St. Louis Blues" conducted by Leonard Bernstein and filmed for use in the movie "The Saga of Satchmo" with composer in attendance
- First ever evening of Cole Porter's music
- Continuing appeal of George Gershwin's music despite wet weather
- Fuller version of Porgy and Bess performed instead of excerpts
- Marilyn Dubow makes impressive Stadium Concerts debut
- New York Way of Living
- Money for Minnies' Music
- First concert performance of "True Love" from the movie High Society
- Louis Armstrong's first performance with a symphony orchestra
- Jazz concert clocks in at 4 hours, 15 minutes
- Vichey Discusses Dual Career
- Music under the stars, by the stars, for the people
- Minnie Guggenheimer asks audience to send in requests for 1957 Stadium Concerts season
- 237,000 attended 1956 Stadium Concerts
- Outdoor Audiences Prefer Novel Shows
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1956 Stadium Scrapbook, 18 Mar 1956 - 3 Aug 1956, Folder 555-063-03, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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