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Conductor Ernest Henry Schelling with dog aboard the S.S. Paris, May 24, 1922. The New York Philharmonic's annual "Young People's Concerts" series was founded in 1924 by conductor "Uncle" Ernest Schelling and Mary Williamson Harriman and Elizabeth "Bessie" Mitchell, co-chairs of the Philharmonic's Educational and Children's Concerts Committee. [4]
In 1982, the Town Hall Foundation started to host the People's Symphony Concerts series. [153] The cast of the folk music mockumentary film A Mighty Wind performed in character at the Town Hall in September 2003 as part of a seven-city tour. [251]
Originally called "West Side Gilbert & Sullivan Players", the group originally performed scenes from Gilbert and Sullivan operas with a sound system and a cast of nine people in outdoor performances and in nursing homes and hospitals around New York City, with borrowed costumes, set pieces and an electric piano from the New York Grand Opera ...
In 1957, Bernstein appointed Mandell to become part of the creative team for his newly planned televised Young People's Concerts. In 1958, Mandell was also named music director of the Philadelphia Little Symphony, both of whom he performed with in Philadelphia and New York, and the Westchester Symphony in Westchester County, New York. [6]
With the New York Philharmonic, he conducted concert versions of Carousel (for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Musical Director) [25] and My Fair Lady. [26] With the Orchestra of St. Luke's , he led gala performances of Candide , [ 27 ] Guys and Dolls , [ 28 ] and The Sound of Music [ 29 ] at Carnegie Hall .
It was played by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein on their CBS television series, Young People's Concerts, in an episode celebrating Stravinsky. [17] On August 28, it was played by the London Symphony Orchestra on a Proms Stravinsky birthday tribute concert, conducted by Colin Davis. [18]
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) is a classical symphony orchestra based in New York City. The orchestra has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and won The American Prize Competition in Orchestral Performance three times. [ 1 ]
In 1956 Scovotti was in the ensemble of the original Broadway cast of Li'l Abner; the only Broadway production she ever appeared in. In 1959 she won the New York Singing Teachers' Association contest and presented a solo recital at Town Hall. [1] That same year she made her debut at the New York City Opera as Monica in Gian Carlo Menotti's The ...