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1937 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), Jul 17, 1937 - Aug 18, 1937
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1937 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- Jul 17, 1937 - Aug 18, 1937
Subjects
- Ballet
- Conductor profiles
- Eva Jessye Choir
- George Gershwin Memorial Concert
- Hollywood Bowl
- Philadelphia Ballet
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1937
- Strauss: Salome
- Tchaikovksy: Sleeping Beauty
- Wagner Festival at Lewisohn Stadium
- Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Wagner: Die Walkure
- Wagner: Gotterdammerung
- Wagner: Siegfried
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Show Top 4
Names
- Althouse, Paul
- Bauer, Harold
- Brown, Anne
- Carter, Elliott
- Castagnetta, Grace
- Cella, Theodore
- Corigliano, John, Sr.
- Darbo, Erica
- Duncan, Todd
- Easton, Florence
- Elzy, Ruby
- Emonts, Joseph F.
- Eustis, Edwina
- Gershwin, George
- Golschmann, Vladimir
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Hoogstraten, Willem van
- Huehn, Julius
- Iturbi, Amparo
- Iturbi, José
- Ivantzoff, Ivan
- Jessye, Eva
- Kaufman, Harry
- Kerby, Paul
- Kurthy, Zoltan
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- Lev, Ray
- Littlefield, Catherine
- Ljungberg. Goeta
- Meisle, Kathryn
- Merman, Ethel
- Mordkin, Mikhail
- Orff, Carl
- Petina, Irra
- Pons, Lily
- Raudenbush, George King
- Reiner, Fritz
- Smallens, Alexander
- Spalding, Albert
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Zimbalist, Efrem Show Top 4
Abstract
- Stadium Concerts Summer 1937
- Wagner Festival at Lewisohn Stadium conducted by Fritz Reiner and featuring vocalists Florence Easton, Edwina Eustis, Irra Petina, Paul Althouse, Dudley Marwick, Goeta Ljungberg, Julius Huehn, and others
- Musical America cover and clippings from publications in July and August 1937; Reviews of Salome performed at Stadium concert on July 1 and July 2, 1937
- Gershwin Memoral Concert on August 9 conducted by Alexander Smallens and Grofe Ferde; Featuring the Eva Jessye Choir, Ethel Merman, Oscar Levant, and others; Draws record audience
- Airplanes drown out sections of Wagner Goetterdaemmerung on July 23
- Catherine Littlefield dances as Princess Aurora Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" on July 29 and 30
- Philharmonic first harpist Theodore Cella appears as composer and conductor on July 26, conducting his original composition Alpine Impressions
- Photo spread of Philharmonic musicians rehearsing
- Paul Kerby conducts his own music for Shakespeare's As You Like It
- German Tonkunstler Verein Festival, a Historic Musical Society founded by Liszt disbands
- Profile on Catherine Littlefield, director of Philadelphia Ballet
- George King Raudenbush Stadium debut
- Three Russian aviators who flew across the North Pole to California attend Stadium concert on August 2
- Rain interrupts Stadium concert on August 2 with Jascha Heifetz mid-playing Tchaikovksy's Violin Concerto
- Profile on Willem van Hoogstaten, "Tintype of a Commuting Conductor"
- Stadium season closes with Efrem Zimbalist as soloist on Aug 16
- Minnie Guggenheimer as chairman of stadium fundraising committee; Many improvements needed to the Stadium
- End of folder contains several pages of articles in various languages from throughout the Stadium concert season
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1937 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 17 Jul 1937 - 18 Aug 1937, Folder 555-027-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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