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1939-40 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 5), Aug 30, 1939 - Nov 8, 1939
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- 555-034-01
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Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1939-40 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 5)
Dates
- Aug 30, 1939 - Nov 8, 1939
Subjects
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
- Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Chicago Symphony Show All
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
- Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Chicago Symphony
- Debussy: Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone
- Herrmann: Moby Dick
- Kurthy: Puszta
- Philharmonic-Symphony League
- Press Clippings, 1939-40
- Radio broadcasts
- Saxophone
- WWII: World War II
- Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture
- Young People's Concerts Show Top 4
Names
- Barbirolli, Evelyn (Mrs. John)
- Barbirolli, John
- Barere, Simon
- Brailowsky, Alexander
- Casadesus, Robert
- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
- Cella, Theodore
- Damrosch, Walter
- Dorfmann, Ania
- George VI, King of the United Kingdom
- Gilman, Lawrence
- Hadley, Henry
- Herbert, Victor
- Horowitz, Vladimir
- Hutcheson, Ernest
- Kaminsky, Anatol
- Kurthy, Zoltan
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- Lhévinne, Josef
- Lhévinne, Rosina
- Marshall, Helen "Peggy"
- Maynor, Dorothy
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Piastro, Mishel
- Pratt, Ruth (Mrs. John T.)
- Rascher, Sigurd
- Salter, Louis
- Sanborn, Pitts
- Spalding, Albert
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tagliafero, Magda
- Traubel, Helen
- Tureck, Rosalyn
- Virovai, Robert
- Walton, William
- Weinberger, Jaromir Show Top 4
Abstract
- Ernest Schelling and Peggy Marshall marry in Switzerland
- Five ships arrive in New York carrying over three thousand fleeing from war; Among them are Helen Hayes, Madeleine Carroll, Ruth Draper, Wilfrid Pelletier, and John Barbirolli
- Death of music critic Lawrence Gilman
- The American Federation of Musicians wins its fight to prevent the Boston Symphony, which is nonunion, from participating in a seven-day ASCAP music festival; the New York Philharmonic is scheduled to replace them
- Louis Salter, Philharmonic's general representative of 14 years, passes away from heart attack
- Pitts Sanborn to succeed Lawrence Gilman as program annotator; Tribute concert for Gilman at concert on Oct. 22
- Premiere of new work by Jaromir Weinberger, "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree," Variations and Fugue on an Old English Tune
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is exiled from Italy; makes American debut as soloists with Philharmonic performing world premiere of his second piano concerto
- Marriage of Evelyn Rothwell and John Barbirolli
- ASCAP Festival ends with free concert at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the work of founder Victor Herbert
- Philharmonic radio broadcasts for the 1939-40 season continue on CBS
- Article in Time magazine dated Oct. 23, 1939 about Weinberger's work "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" and other war-related music topics; Series of pictures of King George VI singing the English folk song
- John Barbirolli is forced to leave his wife Evelyn in England due to passport difficulties; She follows him to the U.S. later
- Article on Zildjian cymbals
- Article written by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco published in the New York Times on writing concertos
- Saxophonist Sigurd Rascher performs Debussy's Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone (revised by Ernest Ansermet), making him the first saxophone soloist to appear in a Philharmonic subscription concert
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1939-40 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 5), 30 Aug 1939 - 8 Nov 1939, Folder 555-034-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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