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More on the just-announced grant from @NEHgov, which will help sustain our Leon Levy Digital Archives well into the future. nyphil.org/whats-new/2020…

Thank you to @NEHgov for the generous grant funding our Leon Levy Digital Archives over the next five years!

Since 1842 women were breaking glass ceilings at the @nyphil. Get to know some of these pioneers, trailblazers 🔥, and innovators in an exhibit curated by the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives, presented in collaboration with @googlearts. #Project19 artsandculture.google.com/story/women-pi…

These drawings by Lillian Freedgood, done in the late 1950s, portray members of the @nyphil in rehearsal. Freedgood was a printmaker, painter, and sculptor. Check out the rest of the series here: bit.ly/2Qgv0wa #dailydocument

60 years ago! Leonard Bernstein conducted a tour of the @nyphil, which included performances at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu. The concerts celebrated the first anniversary of Hawaii becoming a part of the United States..🎻🌺🌸 📸 courtesy of the @NYPhilArchive

Rous, who led these talks, was herself an accomplished pianist. This flyer advertised the talks — Fridays at 11 a.m., $2.40 admission — for the 1951–52 season. Browse Philharmonic Forecasts material in the Digital Archives: bit.ly/3j08nZs #dailydocument

Throughout the 1950s Marion Rous, the former director of Juilliard’s pre-college program, ran a lecture series at Carnegie Hall called Philharmonic Forecasts. These talks worked as exposition to the @nyphil's weekend concerts and broadcasts.

@CincySymphony @nyphil He started @nyphil on Oct. 1, 1943, so yes, seems likely! #page/1/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archives.nyphil.org/index.php/arti…

If he started @nyphil after March 12, 1943 he most likely played the world premiere of "Fanfare for the Common Man" with us during the 42/43 season. How cool is that? Thanks for the mention.

Bassoonist Leonard Sharrow said that Bell “changed the whole character of the tuba. It was no longer an um-pah. It was a voice, a musical instrument. It was something beautiful to listen to.” #dailydocument

William Bell was one of the most notable tuba players in America in the first half of the 20th century. Before joining the @nyphil as principal tuba in 1943, he played in the Sousa band & @CincySymphony, and was handpicked by Toscanini for the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

The flight departed Vancouver at 2 a.m. on April 23, stopped for an hour in Anchorage, and arrived in Tokyo the morning of the 24th. It was the Philharmonic’s first trip to East Asia. View in the Digital Archives: bit.ly/31cMUXf #dailydocument

Here's a Japan Air Lines memento from 1961 on the @nyphil’s tour to Japan, Alaska, Canada, and the Southern U.S. This certificate was given to Philharmonic violist David Kates on April 23, the “Day that Never Dawned.”

#dailydocument Hand-painted glass lantern slide of Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (born this month in 1865). One of many slides from our Ernest Schelling Collection, used through the 1940s to illustrate the @nyphil's Young People's Concerts that Schelling founded.

This performance, conducted by Ernest Schelling, gave Chalif's students a chance to introduce ballet to the young audience members: archives.nyphil.org/index.php/arti…

In 1936 the Chalif Dancers were featured at a @nyphil Young People's Concert. These dancers were from the school started and taught by the Russian Louis Harvy Chalif, whose New York school was one of the first to instruct dance teachers.

She would go on to perform 28 times with the New York Symphony and New York Philharmonic. She autographed this headshot to a fan and accompanist: Louis Sherman, second violinist in the Philharmonic.

Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano, was considered one of the greats of the early- to mid-1900s. Her first performance with the New York Symphony (an orchestra that merged with the Philharmonic in 1928) was on November 22, 1923 with a Beethoven Cycle: archives.nyphil.org/index.php/arti…

#dailydocument: A program of a 1991 @nycityopera performance of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana notated with handwritten commentary by critic and musicologist Edward Downes: bit.ly/2PrwKCn

The Elegy, performed in this program presented by the New York Philharmonic in January 2019, provides a haunting instrumental counterpoint to the vocal sections of the oratorio.

Stucky’s oratorio follows the events of August 4, 1964, a dramatic 24 hours during the LBJ presidency marked by the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the discovery of three murdered civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

We’re marking today's date by taking a look at a composition named, quite literally, for this very day 56 years ago. Steven Stucky wrote "August 4, 1964" in 2008, on commission from the @DallasSymphony, and it premiered under the baton of Maestro Jaap van Zweden–a familiar name!