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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]
Young People's Concerts (YPC) combine one-on-one interaction with musicians, full orchestra concerts, and music curriculum for teachers. Students attending YPCs have the opportunity to learn to play the recorder or violin through the LPO’s partnership with the Link Up program at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO) is a fully professional musical group in Dayton, Ohio, formed in 1933.It is a member of the League of American Orchestras (LAO) and the Regional Orchestra Players' Association (ROPA), and presents programs mainly of classical music, but also occasionally performs world music, pops, jazz and rock-n-roll.
The season expanded in size to 8, then 9, then eventually to 12 concerts including pops. Touring and run-out concerts around the state were also greatly increased, and a second home in Parkersburg was established, through a new organization, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra – Parkersburg.
From 1939 to 1948 he was permanent conductor of the Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony orchestras, and from 1944 to 1946, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From 1946 to 1948, he was music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which was a community orchestra at the time.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
At the age of 16, Watts became among the most prominent pianists. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Pianist André Watts, whose televised debut with the New York Philharmonic as a 16-year-old in 1963 ...
The Philharmonic offers a series of concert performances at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie as well as the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston. [ 2 ] The orchestra has made regular guest appearances at festival venues, including SUNY New Paltz ’s Piano Summer , at Bowdoin Park and the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts .