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1940 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), Jul 20, 1940 - Aug 31, 1940
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- 555-035-02
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1940 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2)
Dates
- Jul 20, 1940 - Aug 31, 1940
Subjects
- All-American Youth Orchestra
- All-Brahms Concert
- All-Gershwin Concert
- Attendance
- Ballet
- Conductor Profiles
- Harris: Challenge, 1940
- Hollywood Bowl
- Johnson: Streets of Florence
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Louise Burge Debut
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1940
- Schuman: This is Our Time
- Still: And They Lynched Him on a Tree
- Teresa Sterne Debut
- Tilly Losch Debut Show Top 4
Names
- Anderson, Marian
- Boerner, Charlotte
- Burge, Louise
- Casadesus, Robert
- Corigliano, John, Sr.
- Dorfmann, Ania
- Elman, Mischa
- Freccia, Massimo
- Granados, Enrique
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Harris, Roy
- Hofmann, Josef
- Kurtz, Efrem
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- Lhévinne, Josef
- Losch, Tilly
- Losch, Tilly
- Pauly, Rose
- Robeson, Paul
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Rodzinski, Halina (Mrs. Artur)
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Schuman, William
- Smallens, Alexander
- Steinberg, Hans Wilhelm
- Sterne, Teresa
- Still, William Grant
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Templeton, Alec
- Zimbalist, Efrem Show Top 4
Abstract
- Leopold Stokowski conducts his All-American Youth Orchestra in their New York debut at Lewisohn Stadium
- US premiere of Horace Johnson's "Streets of Florence"
- Ania Dorfman sings Beethoven for an audience including Mayor LaGuardia
- Eleanor Roosevelt sponsors a concert in Washington DC by Stokowski's All-American Youth Orchestra
- Elsie Houston and Oscar Levant appear at Lewisohn Stadium for the annual George Gershwin memorial program, which was delayed a night due to rain
- A new record of 25,000 are in attendance for the returns of Efrem Kurtz and Marian Anderson to the Stadium Concerts
- Stokowski departs with the All-American Youth Orchestra on a good-will tour of Latin-America
- Carmen, the only opera to be given at the Stadium during the season, is performed under the direction of Alexander Smallens; Rose Pauly sings the lead role
- Ballet Theatre returns to the Stadium
- World premiere of "Goya Pastoral" with choreography by Antony Tudor
- Ballet Theatre debut of Tilly Losch
- Brief complaints in various reviews about the noise pollution caused by low-flying airplanes passing overhead during the Stadium Concerts
- Josef Hofmann returns to the Stadium for his fourth appearance in three years, giving an impressive rendition of Beethoven's Emperor concerto
- Cartoon by Harry Hershfield regarding the Philharmonic's stadium concerts
- Alec Templeton and Efrem Zimbalist are the soloisits for the final series of the Stadium season
- Season attendance is announced to be approximately 300,000
- Mischa Elman gives four encores after performing the Tchaikovsky concerto
- Conert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles
- Minnie Guggenheimer receives an American flag from the Bronx County Chapter No.23 of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War
- Early plans for the 1941 season of Stadium Concerts
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1940 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 2 of 2), 20 Jul 1940 - 31 Aug 1940, Folder 555-035-02, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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