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1937-38 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 2), Sep 1, 1937 - Jan 21, 1938
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- 555-028-01
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1937-38 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 2)
Dates
- Sep 1, 1937 - Jan 21, 1938
Subjects
- 392-11-029
- Achron: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major
- Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Show All
- 392-11-029
- Achron: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major
- Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Communism
- Conductor Profiles
- Delius: Appalachia
- Julius Katchen Debut
- NBC: National Broadcasting Company
- Pension Fund
- Press Clippings, 1937-38
- Princeton, NJ
- Read: Symphony No. 1 in A minor
- Season Planning, 1938-1939
- Victor Records
- Wood/Handel: Alcina
- Young People's Concerts Show Top 4
Names
- Astor, Helen (Mrs. Vincent)
- Astruc, Yvonne
- Barbirolli, John
- Bartlett, Ethel
- Bartók, Béla
- Corigliano, John, Sr.
- Debussy, Claude
- Delius, Frederick
- Dennis, Georgina Dieter
- Elman, Mischa
- Enesco, Georges
- Field, Marshall
- Ganz, Rudolph
- Gieseking, Walter
- Iturbi, Amparo
- Katchen, Julius
- Koszegi, Alexander
- Lehmann, Lotte
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Monath, Hortense
- Nijinsky, Vaslav
- Novaes, Guiomar
- Ormandy, Eugene
- Piastro, Mishel
- Read, Gardner
- Reiter, Xavier [Xaver]
- Robertson, Rae
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Sayao, Bidu
- Schelling, Lucie (Mrs. Ernest Schelling)
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Van Praag, Maurice Show Top 4
Abstract
- Toscanini is engaged as music director of the NBC Symphony
- Victor Records releases Toscanini recordings
- Philharmonic announces 1937-38 season, which will include 35 new major works, including some world premieres, American premieres, and New York Premieres
- Season opening program features world premiere of Sir Henry J. Wood's transcription of Handel's Alcina
- World premiere of Gardner Read's Symphony No. 1,
- World premiere of David Gregory Mason's Symphony No. 3 ("Lincoln"), winner of the Philharmonic Symphony's American Composer Contest from the previous season
- Death of Felix Warburg, banker, philanthropist, and Philharmonic board member; Philharmonic pays tribute at concert on Sunday 24 Oct by performing the Dirge from Edward MacDowell's "Indian Suite"
- Philharmonic run-out to Princeton, NJ to perform in first concert of University Series
- Profile on Bartók and his Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta which will receive its American debut by Barbirolli and the Philharmonic
- Cover and article from Musical America, Vol. LVII, No. 16, 25 October 1937
- Eleven-year-old Julius Katchen performs as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Mozart's D minor piano concerto
- Ernest Schelling cancels conducting engagements due to eye injury; Barbirolli covers YPC in his absence
- Article and analysis of Mason's Symphony No. 3 ("Lincoln") written by Lawrence Gilman
- New York premiere of Delius' Appalachia
- Pianist/composer Isidor Achron performs the world premiere of his own piano concerto with the Philharmonic
- Alexander Koszegi, Philharmonic member and violist, passes away at 57
- Amparo Iturbi appears as soloist with the Philharmonic, covering for a ill Guiomar Novaes
- Maurice Van Praag accused of associating with communist organizations
- 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
*Note: Press misattributes Enesco's Romanian Rhapsody to Stan Golestan
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1937-38 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 2), 1 Sep 1937 - 21 Jan 1938, Folder 555-028-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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