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1941 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 3), Jun 30, 1941 - Jul 31, 1941
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- 555-038-02
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1941 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 3)
Dates
- Jun 30, 1941 - Jul 31, 1941
Subjects
- Ballet Russe
- Bennett: Symphony in D for the Dodgers
- Child Prodigies
- Eva Jessye Choir
- Gershwin Memorial Concert
- Good-Will Missions
- Jazz
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Metropolitan Opera
- Mitchell: Prelude in D Major, Fugue No. 5, Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
- Native American Music
- New York State Amphitheatre
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1941
- Stadium Concerts
- Szell: "Perpetuum Mobile"
- Weber: "Perpetuum Mobile"
- World's Fair Festival Show Top 4
Names
- Corigliano, John, Sr.
- Duncan, Todd
- Elman, Mischa
- Gershwin, George
- Goodman, Benny
- Goossens, Eugene
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Hofmann, Josef
- Houston, Elsie
- Kaminsky, Anatol
- Kostelanetz, Andre
- Kurthy, Zoltan
- Kurtz, Efrem
- Lev, Ray
- Levant, Oscar
- McCormack, John
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Mimosa, Veronica
- Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Monroe, Lucy
- Novotna, Jarmila
- O'Connell, Charles
- Piatigorsky, Gregor
- Pons, Lily
- Robeson, Paul
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Smallens, Alexander
- Steinberg, Hans Wilhelm
- Stewart, Reginald
- Zimbalist, Efrem Show Top 4
Abstract
- Veronica Mimosa, pianist and child prodigy, makes her debut at the Stadium Concerts
- Rain threatens to cancel the concert, but 4,000 attend to see Mischa Elman as soloist on Eugene Goossen's opening program
- Rain forces the Philharmonic to cancel their appearance at Lewisohn Stadium for the fourth time in one week
- Gregor Piatigorsky replaces Josef Hofmann as soloist at the stadium
- Premiere of Elizabeth Mitchell's arrangement of the D major Prelude and Fugue from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo returns to the Stadium
- The annual Gershwin-memorial concert sets a Stadium Concert record with an attendance of 25,000
- Reginald Stewart, the first Canadian conductor to appear at the Stadium, makes his Stadium debut
- Stewart conducts the first half of a program with Benny Goodman as soloist; Following the intermission, Goodman takes over with his own band
- Stewart compliments Benny Goodman, hails jazz as "a new art form"
- The New York State Amphitheatre, home of the Aquacade during the World's Fair, opens in Flshing Meadow Park with a concert by the Philharmonic
- Ray Lev performs Mozart concerto at the Stadium
- Yehudi Menuhin, returning from a South American tour, criticizes U.S. good-will missions to Latin-American countries, calling them "dishonest," and "superfluous"
- Ballet Russe completes their performance of Swan Lake, but the remainder of the program is halted due to rain
- Profile of Yehudi Menuhin, "A Prodigy Grows Up"
- Menuhin attracts a sold-out crowd to the stadium
- World premiere of Robert Russell Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers," conducted by Hans Wilhelm Steinberg
- Lily Pons sings with the Philadelphia Orchestra with her hudband, Andre Kostelanetz, conducting
- Orchestra performs at the opening of the New York State Amphitheatre, the first time in the history of the Stadium Concerts that a concert was given outside of Lewisohn Stadium
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1941 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 3), 30 Jun 1941 - 31 Jul 1941, Folder 555-038-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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