... Philharmonic Society in the British Library are the works he composed in London in 1792, when he was engaged by the Professional Concert as a rival to Haydn in the latter's appearances for Salomon. Details of their performance in the succeeding decade support the case. In the E symphony Pleyel anticipates...

...: Italianate Opening Theme. Bristow, Symphony No. 1, II: Adagio, mm. 1–8 (strings). George Frederick Bristow was born into a musical family in New York City. He was a natural candidate for compositional grooming after the Philharmonic Society of New York, founded in 1842, instituted a clause in its bylaws...

... converged around 1853 as each one entered into an open conflict with the New York Philharmonic. The source of their discontent was the orchestra’s lack of interest in performing music by local composers despite a clause in its bylaws stipulating otherwise. Using the rhetoric of Know-Nothing nativism, Fry...

... Philharmonic. Carl Bergmann, a promoter of Wagnerism, frequently programmed Bristow’s music while leading both the New York Philharmonic and its neighbor, the Brooklyn Philharmonic. In his fourth symphony titled Arcadian (1873), Bristow experimented with progressive stylistic techniques...

...Figure 10.1: Carl Bergmann. Courtesy of the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives, New York, NY. Figure 10.2: Theodore Thomas, ca. 1876. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. Figure 10.3: Ellsworth Phelps. Image reproduced from Ross and Pelletreau...

...British interest in Felix Mendelssohn and his music began to grow after his visit to London in 1829, the year he made his debut at the Philharmonic Society with his Symphony in C Minor. Mendelssohn was first mentioned in the British press in articles translated from German journals a few years...

...Soon after he arrived in California, Bruno Walter opened the Los Angeles Philharmonic's season with five concerts. It marked his return to conducting since the death of his daughter Gretel. Over the next few years, he would travel back and forth across the United States, stopping in the middle...

...The year 1956 marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 200th birthday and was celebrated with a deluge of fetes and performances dedicated to him. Bruno Walter, who also turned eighty that year, conducted several concerts at the New York Philharmonic for a Mozart Festival in March. He also became...

... team entirely new to the local concert stage, who argued that he had libeled them in a review that appeared in the 30 July paper covering their performance the previous evening as soloists with the New York Philharmonic. The proliferation of reviews of pop and dance events in the most recent decades...

...The Academy of Music, the Musical Fund Society, and the Philharmonic Society conducted orchestral programs in Boston between 1841 and 1855. Whether in Europe or in America, concert programming followed principles quite different from those that are taken for granted today. The Salem and Birmingham...

... Philharmonic Orchestra under Basil Cameron. It also describes the triumphant premier of Poulenc's concert called Un Soir de neige, which happened at the same time as Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence divine. Bach Johann Sebastian Barrie James Matthew Beethoven Ludwig van Debussy...

... to happen. This chapter provides not only a narrative about León’s conducting career—with an emphasis on her work with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and the American Composers Orchestra—but also an examination of the professional, creative, and community networks through which she...

... Nicola Lutyens Elizabeth Mendelssohn Felix Seeger Ruth Crawford Karajan Herbert von Madonna Ciccone masterwork Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra women’s music Cusick Suzanne McClary Susan Sand George Toorn Pieter van den d’Indy Vincent sonata form Grove George Schubert Franz American...

... of the twentieth century. Bailly Louis Brain Dennis Corigliano John Sr and Jr Curtis Institute of Music Philadelphia de Pasquale Joseph Ensemble Eroica Memphis Gilbert Alan Gilbert Jennifer Gilbert Michael Grandjany Marcel Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Napoleon emperor of France New York Philharmonic...

...This chapter illustrates how the Philharmonic had completely transformed itself in just eight years. It had silenced concerns about its artistic integrity, withstood challenges to its financial viability, and broadened its listener base. Judson played an integral role in the makeover. His...

..., their objection to his music is a symbolic act to sanctify the memory of the atrocities. The Israel Philharmonic in deference to the members of its audience has also imposed a self-imposed ban on Wagner's work, because they vocally insist on their right to a Wagner-free existence when other orchestras...

... Concertgebouw recording along with another one performed by Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic. He has also reprinted a few lines of incontestably hideous doggerel that Mengelberg inscribed in his conducting score for the Adagietto. The chapter also criticises his performance of Mahler's 1898 string...

...This chapter explains how music in Russia evolved during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with an example, The Powers of Heaven: Orthodox Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and conducted by Paul Hillier. Before...

...This chapter describes Stoki's All-American Youth Orchestra. As the war began to overtake Europe in 1939, and German and Italian influence threatened to take hold in South America, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and performers from La Scala made tours through South America, winning friends...

... is the noun, philos the adjective)—a word we use all the time when we talk about philanthropy, philosophy, philharmonic, and the like. On the other hand, “to love” is also the proper translation of the verb eran. Eros is the name of this psychological force, erastês...