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By 1871, the orchestra had assumed symphonic proportions, and today averages about 40 players. It has always been fairly active, in 1833 organizing the ancestor of today's Glee Club, and in 1837 forming the Harvard Musical Association, which were directly concerned with the formation of the Boston Symphony.
A year ago Shaw got his first chance in high-brow music when Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church invited him to conduct its choir on the side. So far, husky, blue-eyed Robert Shaw has stuck to choruses, never attempted to conduct a symphony orchestra. But symphonic bigwigs from...
Strauss: Don Quixote (Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 10 sides). Cellist Piatigorsky brilliantly performs what many regard as Strauss's finest symphonic score.
One hundred years ago this week, a Connecticut Yankee named Ureli Corelli Hill* launched the Philharmonic Society of New York. Impresario Hill, who looked something like a burlesque Irishman, could not find a second trumpet player. But with a dauntless lack of finesse the Philharmonic gave its first program in...
The program is rounded off by nothing less than Bach's great orchestral suite in C major, a work with the symphonic proportions of one of its composer's Brandenburg concertos. All in all, the concert has a richness that harks back to the days when German orchestras used to...