1959-60 Scrapbook (Part 2 of 5), Jul 6, 1958 - Jul 31, 1959

- Frank Milburn joins press department of NYP - Interview wth James Chambers, principal horn of the NYP, in New York Herald Tribune - Plans for the 1960 Stadium Symphony Orchestra and soloists at Lewisohn Stadium - NYP ticket sales gross more than \$1,000,000 for the first time - Article in New York Times on the role of women, including Helen Huntington Hull, in building orchestras in America - Sampson R. Field, future President of the Philharmonic, is named to the board of directors - In Musical Courier, major musical managers discuss the present and future status of the concert business - Carnegie Hall is saved by two bills signed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and is purchased by the City of New York after campaign in newspapers to save it from demolition - NYP opens its 118th season after returning from tour of seventeen coutries with fifty concerts in twenty-nine cities conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers