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1931 Stadium Scrapbook, Feb 16, 1931 - Sep 13, 1931
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- 555-019-01
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1931 Stadium Scrapbook
Dates
- Feb 16, 1931 - Sep 13, 1931
Subjects
- All-American Program
- All-Wagner Program
- Bolshoi Opera of Moscow
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Show All
- All-American Program
- All-Wagner Program
- Bolshoi Opera of Moscow
- CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- CCNY: College of the City of New York
- Chopin/Mitchell: Polonaise in C-Sharp minor, Op. 26, No. 1
- Conductor Profiles
- Goldman Band
- Hadley: Streets of Pekin
- Hall Johnson Negro Choir
- Kodaly: Dances of Marosszek
- Langley: Pastorale
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1931
- Radio Broadcasts
- Season 1930-1931
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
- Stadium Concert Essay Contest
- Television Broadcasts
- Ticket Prices
- WABC
- WXYZ Show Top 4
Names
Abstract
- Stadium Concerts broadcast by WABC, CBS
- CCNY Course in Music Appreciation, paralleling Stadium Concert programs
- Minnie Guggenheimer appeals for a fund for Stadium Concerts maintenance
- Minnie Guggenheimer announces essay contest on "Why I Go to the Stadium"
- Willem van Hoogstraten on Germany during the depression
- Adolph Lewisohn hosts Annual Dinner at the Claremont
- Willem van Hoogstraten on New York City's effect on his conducting
- Elizabeth Mitchell premieres as a composer by orchestrating Chopin's Polonaise Opus 26, No. 1
- Willem van Hoogstraten honored at CBS banquet at Hotel Elysee, presented with multiple Beethoven-related gifts
- Elizabeth Mitchell on sneaking piano and orchestration lessons
- Arthur Judson responds to claim that ticket prices are raised gradually before concerts
- Willem van Hoogstraten is presented with a silver cigarette case following his last concert; his 10th and final year with the Philharmonic
- Fritz Reiner defends jazz as high art, praises the saxophone
- Elizabeth Mitchell starting "Back to Music" movement of prominent society women as amateur musicians
- Stadium Essay contest winner faked being Chinese in essay, offers to return season pass prize, sponsors were less displeased and more amused
- Willem van Hoogstraten writes of watching music on television detracting from the experience of listening to it
- First performance of Theodore Cella's On a Transatlantic Cruise; Cella is the Philharmonic's principal harpist at the time, and conducts the suite himself
- First performance of Allan Lincoln Langley's waltz, Pastorale
- New Yorker piece satirically criticizes the cowbells used in Mahler's Intermezzi, opines that 'the cowbell man was too fast'
- NBC hosts two composition competitions, one for orchestral works and one for solo string quartets
- Article comparing and contrasting concurrent Stadium Concerts and concerts by The Goldman Band
- Bolshoi Opera of Moscow to possibly perform in New York in around two years
- Fritz Reiner advocates for an "Artistic Laboratory" where musicians and engineers can study sound
- Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and the Denishawn Dancers perform their interpretation of Salome for the first time
- Stadium Concert managers cut the length of broadcasts with the intention of enticing viewers/listeners to pay for the full experience
- Albert Coates on Russia experiencing a musical renaissance
- Newspaper writer gushes about all-Wagner program
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1931 Stadium Scrapbook, 16 Feb 1931 - 13 Sep 1931, Folder 555-019-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/bf3d1d08-ebf4-472f-8a3c-8db6163f9b82-0.1
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/bf3d1d08-ebf4-472f-8a3c-8db6163f9b82-0.1