Portrait of Carnegie Hall: A Nostalgic Portrait in Pictures and Words of America's Greatest Stage and the Artists who Performed ThereMacmillan, 1966 - 217 pages |
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... Philharmonic as a guest and several times thereafter , a restrained and thoughtful contrast to the fiery resident , Arturo Toscanini . Walter preferred Europe , but was dogged by the Nazis from city to city -Leipzig , Vienna , Paris ...
... Philharmonic as a guest and several times thereafter , a restrained and thoughtful contrast to the fiery resident , Arturo Toscanini . Walter preferred Europe , but was dogged by the Nazis from city to city -Leipzig , Vienna , Paris ...
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... Philharmonic spent an uncomfortable few minutes on De- cember 18 , 1929 ; they gave the first perform- ance of Anton von Webern's Symphony for Chamber Orchestra , a work commissioned by the League of Composers , child of Varèse's ...
... Philharmonic spent an uncomfortable few minutes on De- cember 18 , 1929 ; they gave the first perform- ance of Anton von Webern's Symphony for Chamber Orchestra , a work commissioned by the League of Composers , child of Varèse's ...
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... Philharmonic Hall was partly drowned out in the uproar over its acoustics . This prob- lem became one of Carnegie's unsought advan- tages . Though much has been done to alleviate acoustical difficulties at Philharmonic Hall , there is a ...
... Philharmonic Hall was partly drowned out in the uproar over its acoustics . This prob- lem became one of Carnegie's unsought advan- tages . Though much has been done to alleviate acoustical difficulties at Philharmonic Hall , there is a ...
Contents
CHAPTER THREE | 3 |
Symphony Orchestras | 21 |
The Lady of Fiftyseventh Street 145 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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