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Leonard Bernstein
His premiere of Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 in 1951.
His premiere of Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 in 1951.
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra playing selections from this opera from George Gershwin.
It’s a “Gershwin Spectacular” from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!
Music by Gershwin (An American in Paris), Barber (Overture to the School For Scandal), Ives, Bates and others.
From the NYP Archives: symphonic music of Ives, Schoenberg and Webern