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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]
From 1897 to 1898, Ganz studied piano with Fritz Blumer in Strasbourg, and from 1899 to 1900 with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin and Weimar and composition with Heinrich Urban in Berlin. On 7 December 1899, he made his piano debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; and on 14 April 1900, his conducting debut with this orchestra in the world ...
Young People's Concerts (YPCs) are performed for area third through eighth grade students every fall and winter, reaching approximately 24,000 students and their teachers each year. These 40-minute programs feature the full Wichita Symphony Orchestra and often utilize actors or dancers to illustrate the program.
The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City. Known officially as the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., [1] and globally known as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) [2] [3] or the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, [4] it is one of the leading American orchestras popularly called the "Big Five". [5]
The composer recalled those elementary school field trips to see young people’s concerts and one where a student from the audience was picked to come up and conduct the orchestra.
A live performance from February 8, 1964, at the Lincoln Center was filmed for Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts series. He performed with other jazz musicians alongside the New York Philharmonic on Larry Austin 's "Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists" (1961) and Gunther Schuller 's "Journey Into Jazz" (1962).
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 .
At one of his band’s shows in June, Grohl insinuated that the pop star does not sing live at her concerts. “You don’t want to suffer the wrath of Taylor Swift,” Grohl told the London crowd.