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1947-48 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 2), Feb 7, 1947 - Jan 20, 1948
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- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1947-48 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 2)
Dates
- Feb 7, 1947 - Jan 20, 1948
Subjects
- 1947 Edinburgh Festival
- Barber: Cello Concerto
- Bauer: Sun Splendor
- Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 Show All
- 1947 Edinburgh Festival
- Barber: Cello Concerto
- Bauer: Sun Splendor
- Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
- CBS Radio
- Carnegie Hall
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Child Prodigies
- Conductor Profiles
- Copland: Symphony No. 3
- Debussy: Nocturnes
- Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53
- George: Introduction and Allegro
- Gershwin: Concerto in F major for Piano and Orchestra
- Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher
- Honegger: Symphony No. 2 for Strings
- Krenek: Symphony No. 4
- Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor
- Martinu: Symphony No. 3
- Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 (Scottish)
- Messiaen: L'Ascension
- Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat, K. 449
- Musorgsky/Stokowski: Boris Godunov
- Press Clippings, 1947-48
- Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78
- Shostakovch/Stokowski: Prelude in E-flat Minor
- Siegmeister: Symphony No. 1
- Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
- United States Rubber Company
- War Department Show Top 4
Names
- Barber, Samuel
- Briggs, John
- Burco, Ferruccio
- Downes, Olin
- Elman, Mischa
- Fassett, James
- Ferrier, Kathleen
- Hess, Myra
- Honegger, Arthur
- Judson, Arthur
- Koussevitzky, Serge
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- Milstein, Nathan
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Morini, Erica
- Munch, Charles
- Neveu, Ginette
- Neveu, Ginette
- Ormandy, Eugene
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Siegmeister, Elie
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Svanholm, Set
- Szell, George
- Taubman, Howard
- Walter, Bruno
- Weissenberg, Sigi
- Zorina, Vera Show Top 4
Abstract
- Bruno Walter named "Musical Advisor", having declined the responsibility of Musical Director after departure of Musical Director Artur Rodzinski
- Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony is presented in America for the first time by the Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos, generating mostly positive reviews
- Rodzinksi, fired as musical director for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Ferruccio Burco, 8-year-old conducts Philharmonic
- Serge Koussevitzky retires in 1949
- Arthur Judson continues as Manager of the Philharmonic, and head of Columbia Artists Management, that manages all of the conductors selected to lead the Philharmonic
- Cancellation of plans for a European tour by the War Department
- Loss of radio sponsorship by United States Rubber Company
- Divorce of Eugene and Stephanie Ormandy
- Profile of composer Arthur Honegger
- Increase in subscriptions to concerts by the New York Philharmonic
- Bruno Walter conducts Vienna Philharmonic at Edinburgh Festival
- Opening of bar at Carnegie Hall
- Leopold Stokowski opens 1947-48 season of the Philharmonic with glowing performances of music by Debussy, Brahms and Ravel
- Production problems in Radio Music
- Long term lease of Carnegie Hall signed
- Praise for all-Russian program conducted by Leopold Stokowski
- Centenary of Mendelssohn's death marked by Philharmonic by performance of his Scottish Symphony under Leopold Stokowski, which received its American Premiere by the Phiharmonic in 1845
- Article about Mendelssohn
- Newspaper article reporting that Mendelssohn was elected an Honorary Member of the Philharmonic Society in 1846 and replied with a letter written in English
- Tribute to Felix Mendelssohn by Olin Downes in the New York Times
- Praise for Nathan Milstein's performances of the Dovrak Violin Concerto
- Praise for performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto by Dame Myra Hess
- Criticism of Elie Siegmeister's Symphony No. 1
- High praise for Ginette Neveu's performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto
- High praise for Dimitri Mitropoulos' conducting of Richard Strauss' Eine Alpensinfonie
- Oscar Levant plays Gershwin's Concerto in F conducted by Mitropoulos on same program as Mahler's Sixth Symphony
- Profile of Arthur Judson, Manager of the Philharmonic-Symphony, "The Benevolent Despot of Music" by John Briggs in Esquire Magazine
- Mitropoulos conducts the World Premiere of Ernst Krenek's Symphony No. 4, which generated very bad reviews
- Mischa Elman plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D
- Raya Garbousova plays Philharmonic Premiere of Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto
- Philharmonic Ball: "An evening of Austrian Music"
- Celebration of Arthur Judson's twenty-five years as Manager and Executive Secretary of the Philharmonic
- Erica Morini plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto
- Sigi Weissenberg receives Leventritt Award
- Mixed reviews for American Premiere of Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher, conducted by Charles Munch with Vera Zorina
- Article,"Before the Maestro Raps His Baton", by Howard Taubman in The New York Times Magazine
- High praise for playing by Leonard Rose of Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme"
- Bruno Walter conducts Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" with Kathleen Ferrier and Set Svanholm to great acclaim
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1947-48 Scrapbook (Part 1 of 2), 7 Feb 1947 - 20 Jan 1948, Folder 555-054-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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