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1943-44 Scrapbook (Part 4 of 6), Dec 1, 1943 - Feb 26, 1944
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- 555-045-01
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1943-44 Scrapbook (Part 4 of 6)
Dates
- Dec 1, 1943 - Feb 26, 1944
Subjects
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Children's Concerts
- Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation
- Guest conductors Show All
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Children's Concerts
- Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation
- Guest conductors
- Jazz
- Milhaud: Cortege Funebre
- Office of War Information
- Orchestra Member Profiles
- Press clippings, 1943-44
- Radio broadcasts
- Rodzinski, 50th birthday
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
- Ticket sales
- WQXR
- Walter, 50th Anniversary
- Young People's Concerts Show Top 4
Names
- Barber, Samuel
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Ganz, Rudolph
- Goodman, Saul
- Hofmann, Josef
- Horowitz, Vladimir
- Leventritt, Edgar M.
- Milstein, Nathan
- Monteux, Pierre
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Rodzinski, Halina (Mrs. Artur)
- Rose, Leonard
- Rosenwald, William
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Sinatra, Frank
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Szell, George
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Walter, Bruno
- Zirato, Bruno Show Top 4
Abstract
- Artur Rodzinski receives a cow, Country Tulip, for his fiftieth birthday
- Bruno Zirato given task of finding out what the conductor would like for his birthday
- Dimitri Shostakovich sells the rights to broadcast the first American performance of his new Symphony No. 8 to CBS for \$10,000
- CBS in turn gives broadcast honors to Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic
- Rodzinski calls boogie-woogie, "one of the greatest causes of delinquency among American youth today," calls fans of Sinatra, "pitiful cases"
- Leopold Stokowski speaks out in defense of American jazz saying that it is American folk music and should be respected as such
- Bruno Walter conducts an impressive rendition of Mahler's Fourth Symphony as he begins a one-week stay as guest conductor of the Philharmonic
- Sinatra responds to Rodzinski's claims about swing music
- Saul Goodman discusses the qualities required in a good tympanist
- Announcement of the fifth annual Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation Award
- Walter celebrates his 50th year as a conductor
- Rodzinski to travel to South America after the close of the Philharmonic season to appear as a good-will emissary
- Eugene Ormandy named the first official "lend-lease musical artist" by the Office of War Information and will travel to Australia to conduct
- First-desk musicians from the orchestra give a special private concert at the Plaza Hotel
- Artur Rodzinski reappointed music director for the 1944-45 season
- Guest conductors for the 1944-45 season to include Monteux, Stravinsky, Szell, and Bernstein
- Rudolph Ganz defends popular dance music, reminding its detractors that the waltz was also once regarded as immoral
- World premiere of Schuman's William Billings Overture receives unenthusiastic reviews
- Nathan Milstein is soloist with the Philharmonic on Tchaikovsky violin concerto
- William Rosenwald, member of the Philharmonic's board of directors, pays for the refurbishment of the orchestra members' club at Carnegie Hall
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1943-44 Scrapbook (Part 4 of 6), 1 Dec 1943 - 26 Feb 1944, Folder 555-045-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/a0ae2b66-6a99-4bc5-a15c-c9a306c8cf52-0.1