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    Orchestra Personnel

Manager's Reports, Oct 19, 1952 - Apr 26, 1953

ID:
562-03-07
Abstract
Weekly Personnel Manager's Reports, Season 1952-53; Weekly listing of men who missed rehearsals and/or concerts due to illness, bereavement, etc.; List of extra musicians; problems with behavior of individual orchestra members; musicians missing rehearsals and concerts due to illness; letters from doctors treating ill musicians; list of orchestra personnel for the season; out-of-town concerts; large number of extra musicians for Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Mitropoulos), Milhaud "Christophe Colomb", Berg Three Orchestral Pieces (Mitropoulos), excerpts from Strauss' "Salome" (Szell), Bruckner Symphony No. 8 (Walter), Berlioz "Sinfonie Fantastiquie" (Kurtz), Wagner excerpts (Cantelli), Moussorgsky-Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Cantelli), Scriabin "Poem of Ecstasy" (Mitropoulos); Problems of George Szell with violinst Antonio Gerardi; Dispute between Orchestra Manager Joseph de Angelis and bassoonist William Polisi; Bruno Walter complaint about musician yawning at concert; problems at rehearsals between violinist Eugeme Settani and conductor Guido Cantelli
Project Funder
  • Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
Manager's Reports, 19 Oct 1952 - 26 Apr 1953, Folder 562-03-07, Orchestra Personnel Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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