1955 West Coast Tour Scrapbook, Apr 1, 1955 - May 31, 1955

- New York Philharmonic, 1955 Transcontinental U.S. Tour under Dimitri Mitropoulos and Guido Cantelli, first cross-country tour in 34 years - Announcement and reviews of Philharmonic tour concerts - 11-Car special tour train for Philharmonic - Tour cities include Detroit, Michigan; Lafayette, Indiana; Urbana, Illinois;Kansas City, Missouri; Topeka, Kansas; Albaquerque, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; Phoenix, Arizona; Pasadena, California; San Diego, California Los Angeles, California; Santa Barbara, California; Fresno, California; San Francisco, California; Eugene, Oregon; Corvallis.Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Salt Lake City, Utah; Provo, Utah; Denver, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; Ames, Iowa; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Madison, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Ann Arbor, Michigan - New York Philharmonic performs at a series of lectures and convocations at Purdue Hall of Music in Indiana - Reunion of Philharmonic musiciansin New Mexico with Dr. Hans Lange, former conductor of the orchestra - Highly laudatory reviews of tour concerts - Great reviews for Shotakovich's Tenth Symphony conducted by Mitropoulos in many cities on the tour - Poor review by one critic of Cantelli's conducting of the Philharmonic in concert in San Francisco, but others including the famous Alfred Frakenstein were more enthusiatic - New York Philharmonic draws massive crowd in San Francisco. - New York Philharmonic performs in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the first time to a huge crowd in the Tabernacle under Guido Cantelli - Predictions of a great future for conductor Guido Cantelli based on his concerts during the 5-week 1955 trans-continental tour