Besides leading efforts to create a performing arts center for the city that would serve as the Philharmonic's new home, and would eventually lead to the Los Angeles Music Center, she and others wanted a more prominent conductor to lead the orchestra ; after Wallenstein's departure, Chandler led efforts to hire then Concertgebouw Orchestra principal conductor, Eduard van Beinum as the LAPO music director.

Alan Gilbert is the Philharmonic's current music director and Zarin Mehta ( brother of former music director Zubin Mehta ) is the orchestra's current president.

The waltz ranks among the " Waltz King's " magnificent works and is still regularly performed today at the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert.

Among them were the New York Philharmonic's Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, which was held March 15 and 16, 2010 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and hosted by David Hyde Pierce.

At sixteen he was awarded the New York Philharmonic's Young Composers ' Award and the John Harms Chorus premiered his choral work O Filii et Filiae at Town Hall ( 2 May 1954 ).

He has been composer-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Merkin Hall in New York, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Music Alive series, Marlboro Music School and Festiva, Ravinia Festival, and several other festivals.

Other appearances include two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2007 & 2009 ; the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year's Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 & 2011 ; the opening party of the New York Museum of Modern Art ; the Governor ’ s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008 ; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia ; two sold-out concerts at Paris ’ legendary L ’ Olympia Theatre in 2011 ; and Paris ' fashion house Lanvin ’ s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012

But failing to win support from the Philharmonic's public, he left to create the rival Symphony Society of New York in 1878.

The year 1928 marked the New York Philharmonic's last and most important merger: with the New York Symphony Society.

On July 5, 1986, Ma performed on the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC Television ..

He originally asked Sergei Rachmaninoff to be the Philharmonic's first music director ; however, Rachmaninoff had only recently moved to New York, and he did not wish to move again.

The New York decision was particularly galling, as Klemperer had been engaged to conduct the first fourteen weeks of the New York Philharmonic's 1935-6 season.

During the Summer of 1888, Herbert became Seidl's assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic's ten-week summer concert seasons on the Boardwalk at Brighton Beach, a prestigious post.

Jackson Mac Low played Oliveros at the New York Philharmonic's " A Celebration of Women composers " concert on November 10, 1975 and Oliveros has played Mac Low ( see Mac Low's " being Pauline: narrative of a substitution ", Big Deal, Fall 1976 ).

Two of the first major New York composers were William Fry and George Bristow, both of whom were involved in a well-known 1854 controversy over the Philharmonic's programming choices.

This gave him a chance to receive private, free tutoring from the New York Philharmonic's Simon Kovar, a bassoon player.

In December of the same year he played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Herbert von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Eve Concert which was broadcast internationally, with the performance repeated the following year at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

On July 5, 1986, she performed on the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC Television.

( Dijon ), Musica Viva ( Munich ), the Agora Festival ( Paris ), various ISCM festivals, and the New York Philharmonic's Horizons.

Commissioned by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, he wrote Four Seasons, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra celebrating various aspects of the months.

On July 5, 1986, he performed on the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC Television ..

He also appeared in the New York Philharmonic's production of Camelot.

He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, ( who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966 ), Dizzy Gillespie, Langston Hughes, Dustin Hoffman, Sir James Galway, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Steve Martin, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Depp, Pete Seeger, and Tito Puente.

He was long associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was resident composer 1988-2009 ( the longest such affiliation in American orchestral history ); he was host of the New York Philharmonic's Hear & Now series 2005-09 ; and he was Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year for the 2011-12 season.

During the Philharmonic's first seven seasons, seven musicians alternated the conducting duties.

At first the Philharmonic's suggestion offended Thomas because he was unwilling to disband his own orchestra.

Maazel concluded his tenure as the Philharmonic's Music Director at the end of the 2008-2009 season.

The Czech Philharmonic's first phonograph recording dates from 1929, when Václav Talich recorded the Smetana ´ s My Country for His Master's Voice.

The new Internet platform will enable music fans all over the world to see and hear the Philharmonic's concerts – live or on demand.

Wilhelm Furtwängler had accepted the orchestra's invitation to fill the post, but he was politically unacceptable to a section of the Philharmonic's audience because he continued to live and work in Germany under the Nazi government.

The Philharmonic's concerts at the Hollywood Bowl also brought in much needed revenue.

The Philharmonic's musicians, management and audience all loved Beinum, but in 1959, he suffered a massive heart attack while on the podium during a rehearsal of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and died.

The music always includes pieces from the Strauss family — Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss — with occasional additional music from other mainly Austrian composers, including Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr., Joseph Lanner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Otto Nicolai ( the Vienna Philharmonic's founder ), Emil von Reznicek, Franz Schubert, Franz von Suppé, and Karl Michael Ziehrer.

But members of the Leningrad Philharmonic's reserve orchestra and the Leningrad Radio Orchestra were left behind in the siege of Leningrad, so it fell to Karl Eliasberg to conduct the surviving musicians in the Leningrad premiere of the Symphony No. 7 " Leningrad " by Shostakovich.

She ran the Los Angeles Philharmonic's education department in the late 1990s.

`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

The infant is discovered by a fisherman who brings him home to rear him.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

And this is my own home ''.

The impression you get from Carl Sandburg's home is one of laughter and happiness ; ;

the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a hospital for sinners.

In designing his home fallout shelter there is nothing to prevent a man from planning to shelter that home's occupants, `` plus-one '' -- so he will be able to take in a stranger.

Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the U.S. Army.

There is no such thing as being diligent about national affairs but indifferent about home needs.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

The problem of efficient production in textiles is complicated by the fact that the industry serves large markets which shift quickly with changes of fashion in apparel or home decoration.

I therefore believe it is realistic to assume a modest drop in the total value of home entertainment electronics to about $1.8 million, slightly below 1960, but above 1959.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

The home listener is overpowered, all right, but the experience is a far from pleasant one.

As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.

Home is the place to find the comforts of home.

He is usually conscious of the social pressures at home and outside ; ;

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.