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1955-56 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), May 1, 1955 - Apr 30, 1956
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Contents List
- p. 1 - Concert Reviews and Announcements
- p. 36 - Personnel and Managers
- p. 45 - Personnel and Managers
Folder Title
- 1955-56 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- May 1, 1955 - Apr 30, 1956
Subjects
- AGMA: American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc.
- Barber: Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
- Bloch: Schelomo
- Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 Show All
- AGMA: American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc.
- Barber: Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
- Bloch: Schelomo
- Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
- CBS Radio
- Casadesus: Piano Concerto in E-Minor
- Chavez: Symphony No. 3
- Child prodigies
- Conductor profiles
- Copland: Lincoln Portrait
- Creston: Dance Overture
- Creston: Symphony No. 2, Op. 35
- Downes death
- Dvorak: Symphony No. 7, D minor, Op. 70 (Old No. 2)
- Foss: The Song of Songs
- Hindemith: Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass, Op. 50
- Japanese music
- Kirchner: Piano Concerto
- Liebermann: Musique for Narrator and Orchestra
- Lincoln Square
- Little Orchestra Society
- Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
- Mozart Bicentennial
- Orchestra member profiles
- Pension Fund Benefit Concerts
- Pops Concerts
- Press clippings, 1955-56
- Prokofiev: Cello Concerto No. 2
- Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E-minor
- Schuman: Judith
- Shostakovich: Violin Concerto Op. 99
- Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
- Symphony of the Air
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
- Thomson: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
- Weber: Prelude and Passacaglia Show Top 4
Names
- Backhaus, Wilhelm
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Bloch, Ernest
- Cantelli, Guido
- Chavez, Carlos
- Corigliano, John, Jr.
- Downes, Olin
- Elman, Mischa
- Firkusny, Rudolf
- Friedberg, Carl
- Gieseking, Walter
- Gitlis, Ivry
- Han, Tong Il
- Harrison, Jay S.
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Hess, Myra
- Istomin, Eugene
- Judson, Arthur
- Keiser, David M.
- Kleiber, Erich
- Konoye, Hidemaro
- Kostelanetz, Andre
- Lang, Paul Henry
- Lincer, William
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Miyagi, Michio
- Monteux, Pierre
- Morini, Erica
- Oistrakh, David
- Paray, Paul
- Piastro, Mishel
- Rodgers, Richard
- Scarpini, Pietro
- Schippers, Thomas
- Seefried, Irmgard
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Simoneau, Leopold
- Taubman, Howard
- Tourel, Jennie
- Varnay, Astrid
- Vichey, Luben
- Vinay, Ramon
- Walter, Bruno
- Warfield, William
- Zirato, Bruno Show Top 4
Abstract
- Opening night concert for 1955-56 is all-Mozart featuring Rudolf Serkin playing three Mozart piano concertos, C Major K. 503, D Major K. 451 and A Major K. 488, opening the Mozart bicentennial celebration
- Revival of Mozart's one movement Sinfonia Concertante in A Major dating from 1773, for violin, viola, cello and orchestra, discovered in the Salzburg Mozarteum by principal violist William Lincer
- Death of New York Times music critic Olin Downes
- Funeral music from Wagner's Gotterdammerung played in tribute to Olin Downes
- Symphony of the Air, former NBC Symphony, gives six concerts under the leadership of Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Casadesus plays his own Piano Concerto in E-Minor with the Philharmonic under Mitropoulos, leading critics to conclude he is a better pianist than a composer
- Good reviews for William Schuman's Judith, Choreographic Poem
- 80 Year-old conductor Pierre Monteux led the Philharmonic for the first time in many years
- Praise for Leon Fleisher in the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 with Szell and the Philharmonic
- David Oistrakh brilliant in a Concerto Marathon with Mitropoulos, featuring works by Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, in a benefit for the Pension Fund of the Philharmonic
- High acclaim for veteran violinist Erica Morini and her performance of the Tchaikovsky concerto
- Ivry Gitlis, Isaeli violinist, makes debut playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto
- Soviet violinist David Oistrkh makes impressive Philharmonic debut playing three violin concertos, Mozart A Major, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, in Pension Fund Benefit Concert
- David Oistrakh gives a spectacular performance of the Violin Concerto No. 1 in A-minor by Shostakovich in its American Premiere, with Mitropoulos and the Philharmonic
- Mishel Piastro, former concertmaster of the Philharmonic, returns as soloist in the Tchaikovsky Concerto
- Mexican composer Carlos Chavez returns to conduct his Symphony No. 3, commisioned by Clare Boothe Luce
- Mitropoulos conducts the World Premiere of Samuel Barber's Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
- The Philharmonic performs Ernest Bloch's Schelomo with Laszlo Varga in honor of the composer's 75th birthday
- Dame Myra Hess and Bruno Walter play Mozart with the Philharmonic to commemorate the bicentennial of his birth, earning raving reviews
- Bruno Walter conducts Mozart's Requiem and excerpts from the C Minor Mass with Irmgard Seefried, Jennie Tourel, Leopold Simoneau and Wiliam Warfield as soloists, and the Westminter Choir
- Wilhelm Backhaus returns after almost 30 years to perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 under Guido Cantelli
- New York Premiere of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, under Guido Cantelli
- Leon Kirchner soloist in the first performance of his Piano Concerto
- American Premiere of Prokofiev's Cello Concerto No. 2, a reworking of the Concerto No. 1, with Mstislav Rostropovich as soloist and Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting, to general critical acclaim of the work and the soloist, a welcome and demanding addition to the cello repetoire
- Mitropoulos scores with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in the exciting closing concerts of the season
- Interview with John Corigliano, "A Concertmaster Explains His Role," by Jay S. Harrison, New York Herald Tribune
- Article, "Fewer Concerts, More Rehearsals," by Paul Henry Lang, New York Herald Tribune, May 1957
- Arthur Judson, 75, resigns as manager, executive secretary and director of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society in September 1956 after serving the orchestra and the society for 34 years since 1922, almost one-third of the history of the orchestra, succeeded by Bruno Zirato as Managing Director
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1955-56 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 1 May 1955 - 30 Apr 1956, Folder 555-067-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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