New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic ( English New York Philharmonic ) is a symphony orchestra founded in New York in 1842 under the name Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York .

history

The founder of the New York Philharmonic: Ureli Corelli Hill

They are the oldest orchestra in the USA . The founder was the American conductor Ureli Corelli Hill . The orchestra is traditionally counted among the Big Five .

After the orchestra moved from Carnegie Hall to Avery Fisher Hall ( Lincoln Center ) in 1962 , there are currently discussions about the withdrawal to Carnegie Hall.

On records (especially the Everest label ), the New York Philharmonic appeared in the 1950s and 60s due to other recording contracts, sometimes as the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York .

The New York Philharmonic are known for their concerts as a political "door opener". For example, they played in Moscow as early as 1959 and 1976. On February 26, 2008, they made a guest appearance in North Korea's capital Pyongyang . Since this is the first appearance of an American orchestra in the Communist People's Republic, this appearance is already considered historic.

Chief conductor

1842–1849: Ureli Corelli Hill , Henry Timm , Denis Etienne, William Alpers, George Loder, Louis Wiegers and Alfred Boucher 1849–1854: Theodore Eisfeld 1854–1855: Theodore Eisfeld and Henry Timm 1855–1856: Carl Bergmann 1856–1858: Theodore Eisfeld 1858–1859: Carl Bergmann 1859–1865: Carl Bergmann and Theodore Eisfeld 1865–1876: Carl Bergmann 1876–1877: Leopold Damrosch 1877–1878: Theodore Thomas 1878–1879: Adolf Neuendorff 1879-1891: Theodore Thomas 1891–1898: Anton Seidl 1898–1902: Emil Paur 1902–1903: Walter Damrosch 1906–1909: Wassili Iljitsch Safonow

1909–1911: Gustav Mahler 1911–1923: Josef Stránský 1922–1930: Willem Mengelberg 1928-1936: Arturo Toscanini 1936–1941: John Barbirolli 1943–1947: Artur Rodziński 1947–1949: Bruno Walter 1949–1950: Leopold Stokowski 1949-1958: Dimitri Mitropoulos 1958–1969: Leonard Bernstein 1969–1970: George Szell 1971-1977: Pierre Boulez 1978-1991: Zubin Mehta 1991–2002: Kurt Masur 2002-2009: Lorin Maazel 2009-2017: Alan Gilbert 2017-2018: Jaap van Zweden as 'Music Director Designate' since 2018: Jaap van Zweden

Trivia

After strong protests, the women of the orchestra were also allowed to wear trousers to concerts in 2018. The New York Philharmonic was the last of around 20 major orchestras in the United States to prohibit women from wearing trousers, except in exceptional cases. The ban on women entering the orchestra was lifted in 1966 for an assistant conductor to the Swiss conductor competition winner Sylvia Caduff .

archive

In 2011, the NYP began posting their archives on the Internet from 1943 to 1970. There you will find digitized programs (3227 different copies), pictures (4216), scores (1365) and business documents (328). The scores contain numerous entries by the conductors.

See also

• Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition

Web links

Commons : New York Philharmonic  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• New York Philharmonic website
• The New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Philharmonic Prepares for Soviet Tour , The New York Times , May 26, 1988
2. ↑ Stormy applause at the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang ( memento of the original from February 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Die Welt , February 26, 2008 
3. ↑ Women with the New York Philharmonic are now allowed to wear trousers | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 21, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on September 21, 2018]).
4. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: Bernstein's scores on the Internet . RP of March 7, 2011, page C7

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