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1941 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 1 of 3), Apr 8, 1941 - Jul 1, 1941
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- 555-038-01
Record Group
- Communications/Public Relations
Series
- Press Clippings
Folder Title
- 1941 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 1 of 3)
Dates
- Apr 8, 1941 - Jul 1, 1941
Subjects
- AFM: American Federation of Musicians
- Acoustics
- Ballet Russe
- Benjamin: Cotillon
- Britten: Soirées Musicales
- Carnegie Corporation, Inc.
- Child Prodigies
- Copland: Billy the Kid
- Deficit
- Eva Jessye Chorus
- Guarantee Fund
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Local #802
- Native American Music
- Press Clippings, Stadium 1941
- Sanjuan: Liturgia Negra
- Schola Cantorum
- Soloists
- Stadium Concerts Show Top 4
Names
- Adler, Peter Herman
- Chapin, Katherine Garrison (Mrs. Francis Biddle)
- Dorfmann, Ania
- Elman, Mischa Show All
- Adler, Peter Herman
- Chapin, Katherine Garrison (Mrs. Francis Biddle)
- Dorfmann, Ania
- Elman, Mischa
- Goodman, Benny
- Goossens, Eugene
- Guggenheimer, Minnie
- Hamilton, Helen (Mrs. Pierpoint Morgan)
- Hull, Helen Huntington (Mrs. Lytle)
- Kreisler, Fritz
- Kullman, Charles
- Kurtz, Efrem
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- Lev, Ray
- Lewisohn, Sam A.
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Mimosa, Veronica
- Novotna, Jarmila
- Robeson, Paul
- Rodzinski, Artur
- Ross, Hugh
- Rubinstein, Artur
- Smallens, Alexander
- Spalding, Albert
- Steinberg, Hans Wilhelm
- Stewart, Reginald Show Top 4
Abstract
- Minnie Guggenheimer announces plans for the 1941 season of outdoor concerts
- A guarantee fund of 75,000 dollars is needed to ensure the concerts
- The Concert Committee of Stadium Concerts has Mayor LaGuardia and Samuel A. Lewisohn as honorary chairmen
- The seven engaged conductors include: Artur Rodzinski, Reginald Stewart, Eugene Goossens, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, Peter Herman Adler, Efrem Kurtz, and Alexander Smallens
- U.S. servicemen and women attend Stadium Concerts for free
- Fritz Kreisler is hit by a truck and fracctures his skull while crossing against the light on Madison Ave
- Rodzinski opens the twenty-fourth Stadium season with an all-Tchaikovsky program
- US premiere of Arthur Benjamin's "Cotillon"
- The Carnegie Corporation of New York approves a 5,000 dollar grant to improve the sound system at Lewisohn Stadium
- Opening night at the stadium sets a new record for attendence with over 23,000, not including 2,000 who had to be turned away at the door
- Crowds, unable to enter Lewisohn Stadium, protest with improvised chants
- Pre-season concert, conducted by Mitropoulos, is given at Lewisohn Stadium to help raise money for a series of concerts to be given in parks and playgrounds of "musically underprivileged" sections of the city; Sponsored by Mayor LaGuardia and the Local 802
- New York concert premiere of Aaron Copland's suite from "Billy the Kid"
- Paul Robeson is the featured soloist on a program conducted by Hugh Ross, with support form the voices of the Schola Cantorum and the Eva Jessye Chorus
- Smallens presents two novelties: the New York premiere of Britten's Soirées Musicales, and the American premiere of "Iniciacion" from Pedro Sanjuan's Liturgia Negra
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo give the first ballet performance of the stadium season
- Highlighting Jewish participation in the Stadium concerts in The American Hebrew magazine
- Rain threatens to cancel the concert, but 4,000 attend to see Mischa Elman as soloist on Eugene Goossen's opening program
- Veronica Mimosa, pianist and child prodigy, makes her debut at the Stadium Concerts
- Article in the New York Times by Eugene Goossens on American composers
Project Funder
- Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
1941 Stadium Scrapbook (Part 1 of 3), 8 Apr 1941 - 1 Jul 1941, Folder 555-038-01, Communications/Public Relations Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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