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1941-42 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 3), Aug 24, 1941 - Nov 3, 1941
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1941-42 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 3)
Dates
- Aug 24, 1941 - Nov 3, 1941
Subjects
- American Federation of Musicians
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
- Brooklyn Eagle
- Brooklyn Symphony Show All
- American Federation of Musicians
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
- Brooklyn Eagle
- Brooklyn Symphony
- Castle Garden
- Centennial
- Chavez: Piano Concerto No. 1
- Commissions
- Concert reviews
- Copland: Statements
- Diamond: Symphony No. 1
- Franck: Symphony in D minor
- Leventritt Award
- NBC Symphony Orchestra
- New Opera Company
- Philharmonic-Symphony League
- Press Clippings, 1941-42
- Radio Broadcasts
- San Francisco Symphony
- Still: Plain Chant for America
- Stokowski: Prelude on the Traditional Melody, "Eine Feste Burg"
- Union disputes
- United States Postal Service
- WABC
- Westminster Choir
- Young People's Concerts
- Young Composers' Contest Show Top 4
Names
- Bagar, Robert
- Barbirolli, Evelyn (Mrs. John)
- Barbirolli, John
- Beecham, Thomas
- Biancolli, Louis
- Busch, Fritz
- Casadesus, Robert
- Chapin, Katherine Garrison (Mrs. Francis Biddle)
- Cowell, Henry
- Doremus, Arthur
- Doremus, Arthur
- Downes, Olin
- Dvorak, Antonin
- Field, Marshall
- Ganz, Rudolph
- Goldman, Adrienne
- Goossens, Eugene
- Hill, Ureli Corelli
- Hofmann, Josef
- Holmes, Bettie F. (Mrs. Christian R.)
- Hull, Helen Huntington (Mrs. Lytle)
- Judson, Arthur
- Kastendieck, Miles
- Kovarik, Joseph
- Kreisler, Fritz
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- Leventritt, Edgar M.
- Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Monroe, Lucy
- Petrillo, James C.
- Pons, Lily
- Reiff, Anthony Jr.
- Reiff, Maud
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Rous, Marion
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Schuster, Joseph
- Steber, Eleanor
- Still, William Grant
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Taylor, Deems
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Van Koppenhagen, Otto
- Walter, Bruno Show Top 4
Abstract
- Concert reviews and announcements for fall of centennial season 1941-42
- Postmaster Albert Goldman recommends to Postmaster-General Frank C. Walker that a Special Post Office stamp be issued to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York Philharmonic
- Scores are accepted for the Young Composers' Contest
- Leopold Stokowski selects Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which was played at the Philharmonic's first ever concert, for the opening program of the centennial season
- WABC officially announces that they will broadcast the twenty-eight Sunday afternoon concerts from Carnegie Hall; Deems Taylor will return as intermission commentator
- Stokowski signs contract to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra in eight Tuesday night concerts, broadcast over the radio
- Joseph J. Kovarik on his time spent with Antonin Dvorak in America
- Louis Biancolli and Robert Bagar are named program annotators
- Maud and Beatrice Reiff and Robert Ogden Doremus share stories about theearly days of the Philharmonic, told to them by their respective parents, Anthony Reiff Jr. and Robert Doremus Sr.
- Elizabeth Mitchell promotes her new book, calls symphony audiences arrogant and snobbish
- Death of Bettie F. Holmes
- New York Times Magazine article by Howard Taubman on the Philharmonic's first ever concert, including an image of the program
- Premieres of Chavez Piano Concerto; Copland "Statements"; Diamond First Symphony; David Stanley Smith "Credo"; William Grant Still "Plain Chant for America"
- New York premiere of Henry Cowell's "Tales of Our Countryside," with the composer as soloist
- Commemorative medals given to Maud Reiff and Arthur L. Doremus
- Erno Valasek is the winner of the second annual Leventritt Award
- Fritz Kreisler makes his first public appearance since his accident
- Lily Pons donates her lifetime collection of fanmail to the nationwide waste paper savings drive
- Profile piece on Henry Cowell
- President Roosevelt sends a letter to Marshall Field, congratulating the Philharmonic on their centennial
- The Philharmonic perform Morton Gould's "Guaracha" for the first time
- San Francisco Symphony celebrates its thirtieth season
- Toscanini signs a contract to conduct a two-week post-season festival
- Philharmonic-Symphony League hosts a luncheon to open its fourth season
- Barbirolli returns to conduct the world premiere of "Plain-Chant for America," by William Grant Still, poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin
- Performance of Chopin's Funeral March dedicated to Bettie F. Holmes
- Castle Garden, now known as the New York Aquarium, is set to be demolished
- The Philharmonic open the Princeton University music season with Barbirolli conducting
- Photographs on p. 60-61of Maud Reiff; A.L. Doremus; Mrs. Lytle Hull; Mr.and Mrs. Kreisler; and Marshall Field
- Rudolph Ganz opens the new season of Young People's Concerts
- Letter from Arthur Judson to Miles Kastendieck congratulating the Brooklyn Eagle on their centennial
- Celebration of Dvorak's centenary
- Sandra Bianca, 10, plays with the Philharmonic at the children's concert in Carnegie Hall
- Announcement of the formation of the Brooklyn Symphony
- Flyer for "Paintings of the N.Y. Philharmonic Symphony" at the Schneider-Gabriel Galleries
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1941-42 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 3), 24 Aug 1941 - 3 Nov 1941, Folder 555-039-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/905046ee-7dd3-45a5-9a98-d50c08ce8676-0.1
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