They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

Koussevitsky's Boston Symphony Orchestra premièred the work in December 1944 to highly positive reviews.

The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.

He later studied the instrument further with Felix Viscuglia, clarinetist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

While at Harvard, he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra and was a reserve clarinetist for both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Company of Boston.

" After the 2001 cancellation of performances of excerpts from " Klinghoffer " by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, debate has continued about the opera's content and social worth.

In 1863, Agassiz's daughter Ida married Henry Lee Higginson, later to be founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and benefactor to Harvard University and other schools.

In 2010 Robert Zubrin was featured in the Symphony of Science video " The Case for Mars " along with Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston.

** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.

* August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The North American premiere was at Tanglewood, with Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloists Phyllis Curtin, Nicholas Di Virgilio, Tom Krause and choruses from Chorus Pro Musica and the Columbus Boychoir, featuring boy soprano Thomas Friedman ..

After two years, Slonimsky moved to Boston to work as an assistant for Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky, for whom he had earlier worked as a rehearsal pianist in Paris.

At its porte cochere, chauffeur-driven limosines from the estates deposited their owners in evening gowns and tuxedoes, to be joined by hotel patrons for dinner at 7: 30 p. m. Post-prandial entertainments included chamber music by a Boston Symphony ensemble in the lobby, or Saturday dancing and costume parties in the ballroom.

One estate on the Lenox border, Tanglewood, was adapted for use for the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

* Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

* Henry Lee Higginson ( 1834 – 1919 ), founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

* Videos of Tim Genis, Principal Timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, demonstrating his line of timpani mallets by performing excerpts from orchestral repertoire

Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its European premiere at the 1984 Proms was relayed on BBC television.

Walter ended his Munich appointment in 1922 and left for New York in 1923, working with the New York Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall ; he later conducted in Detroit, Minnesota and Boston.

On a visit to Boston years later he performed the baritone role in Boston's first performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Germania Orchestra on April 2, 1853.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra ( BSO ) is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

He was thrown out, more or less, from Boston, Plymouth, Pocasset, Newport, and Providence.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.

In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.

He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

The nearest undisrupted end of track from Boston was at Concord, N. H..

-- Boston Red Sox Outfielder Jackie Jensen said Monday night he was through playing baseball.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.

The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.

His most well-known teaching position was at the Temple School in Boston.

He moved to Boston on April 24, 1828, and was immediately impressed, referring to the city as a place " where the light of the sun of righteousness has risen.

" Alcott began to believe Boston was the best place for his ideas to flourish.

It was named the Temple School because classes were held at the Masonic Temple on Tremont Street in Boston.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.