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1942 Stadium Scrapbook, Jun 1, 1942 - Aug 31, 1942
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- 555-041-01
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1942 Stadium Scrapbook
Dates
- Jun 1, 1942 - Aug 31, 1942
Subjects
- Anna Duncan's Dance Program
- Bach Choir
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Bergersen: This is God's War Show All
- Anna Duncan's Dance Program
- Bach Choir
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Bergersen: This is God's War
- Denishawn Dancers
- Eva Jessye Choir
- First Piano Quartet, New York concert debut
- Gliere: Marche Heroique
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Josten: Concerto Sacro, No. 2
- Kern: Show Boat, Scenario for Orchestra
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1942
- Reigger: New Dance
- Revueltas: Jantizio
- Schuman: Newsreel
- Shostakovich-Prokofieff program
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
- Silver Jubilee Symphonies
- Stadium Concerts
- Stadium Concerts Defense Entertainment Committee
- The Goldman Band Show Top 4
Names
- Abram, Jacques
- Abravanel, Maurice
- Allers, Franz
- Anderson, Marian
- Barlow, Howard
- Brico, Antonia Louisa
- Coates, Albert
- Daly, William Jerome, Jr.
- Danilova, Alexandra
- Fine, Eleanor
- Gershwin, George
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Hamilton, Helen (Mrs. Pierpoint Morgan)
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Hofmann, Josef
- Hoogstraten, Willem van
- Iturbi, José
- Josten, Werner
- Kapell, William
- Kostelanetz, Andre
- Krassovska, Nathalie
- Kurtz, Efrem
- Levant, Oscar
- Lewisohn, Sam A.
- List, Eugene
- Massine, Leonide
- McCloskky, Blair
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Mladova, Milada
- Ormandy, Eugene
- Piatigorsky, Gregor
- Pons, Lily
- Reiner, Fritz
- Robeson, Paul
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Slavenska, Mia
- Smallens, Alexander
- Spalding, Albert
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Volpe, Arnold
- Whitney, Eleanor Searle (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Youskevitch, Igor Show Top 4
Abstract
- Stadium Concerts for the 25th Season, celebrate the Silver Jubilee despite the war as Stadium concerts were planned to aid civilian morale and give entertainment to soldiers and sailors
- 5 conductors appointed, Rodzinki to open
- Stadium Opening, Tribute to USSR
- All tables sold out for Opening Concert June 17, first time in series history
- Majority of clippings in varying languages
- Lightening strike breaks Orchestra Shell at Lewisohn Stadium
- Raise \$50,000 to underwrite the season's defiict
- Formation of Concerts Defense Committee to Aid Patronage of Soldiers to favor soldiers in concerts plan (free admissions)
- Stadium uses blue lights, air-raid wardens, sheet-metal walls for Concert Series to accomadate the war, but no nerves from the audience
- Mrs. Cornelius V. Whitney, member of the Concerts Defense Committee, is Soloist for Elijah Benefit
- Werner Josten Conducts his Own Work at Lewisohn Stadium
- Albert Spalding makes 8th annual appearance as a Lewisohn Stadium soloist
- Artur Rubinstein opens concerts with Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 along with Goldman Band
- Goldman Band makes 1942 Brooklyn debut at Prospect Park at Stadium Concert
- Private Eugene List is released for one night for his debut with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto under Rodzinski, receives promotion after concert
- WNYC to Broadcast Full Stadium Concerts
- Reiner leads All-Beethoven Concert
- Goldman band, sponsored by he Guggenheim family, showcases Latin-American music
- Starting 1942, no ban upon music by compoers of Axis nations
- All-Tchaikovsky program, "Music of Old Russia"
- "Folk Songs on the Firing Line" concert series at the Stadium
- Kurtz Quits Ballet Post and devotes time to conducting
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1942 Stadium Scrapbook, 1 Jun 1942 - 31 Aug 1942, Folder 555-041-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/9643ae88-5880-4455-a282-eedd9c6d3e26-0.1
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