Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For years the Los Angeles Philharmonic has played concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, but has also competed with the Hollywood Bowl Association for guest conductors and soloists. Last summer both organizations made a move highly unusual in the music world, turned for advice to McKinsey & Co., a Manhattan firm of...
So far as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl knew, no symphony director had ever been picked in that fashion. Nevertheless, they turned the problem over to Manhattan's Ward Howell Associates, a firm that specializes in finding executives for business and industry. Ward Howell invited suggestions...
Meantime, Ward Howell is getting other nibbles from the world of culture: a record company is looking for a comptroller and a major U.S. orchestra for a director.
Only one U.S. orchestra-the New York Philharmonic-is older than the St. Louis Philharmonic. Founded 20 years before the city's professional orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Philharmonic has attracted generation after generation of St. Louis families to its ranks, has sent alumni by the score into...
Whole families often play with the Philharmonic. S. Carl Robinson, vice president of the St. Louis transit system, plays the second flute while his wife is a timpanist and his 23-year-old son a French horn player. The rehearsal schedule is heavy: six 2½-hour rehearsals for each...