Author: Richard Griscom
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Vladimir Jurowski Studies Eugene Ormandy’s Changes to a Rachmaninoff Symphony
A couple of days ago, I got an email from Bob Grossman, librarian of the Philadelphia Orchestra: “Maestro Vladimir Jurowski is conducting us this week and he just asked me if I have Ormandy’s score for the Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1. Apparently, Ormandy has some significant additions to the music in his Philadelphia Orchestra recording.…
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Stokowski’s Podium
This week the Philadelphia Orchestra is commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of Leopold Stokowski’s appointment as music director with a series of concerts in the Academy of Music. In honor of the occasion, there will be an exhibit on display in the lobby of the Academy, featuring several items from the holdings of the Penn Libraries:…
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