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New York Philharmonic

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra from New York and one of the oldest musical institutions in the United States. The conductor Ureli Corelli Hill founded the orchestra in 1842, with the help of the Irish composer William Vincent Wallace, as the Philharmonic Society of New York. The first concert took place on 7 December 1842 in the Apollo Rooms on Broadway, for some six hundred listeners, and opened with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. In 1846 the orchestra gave the American premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It is one of the so-called Big Five of the American orchestras and today plays in David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

Music and breakthrough

In the nineteenth century the conductors often changed. Afterwards conductors such as Theodore Thomas set the level of the orchestra. In 1878 a rival emerged with Leopold Damrosch's Symphony Society of New York, and Walter Damrosch persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build a new concert hall, which opened in 1891.

Influence

For anyone studying pop and jazz, this orchestra is interesting above all as a link with the classical world. The orchestra's records, including from the 1950s and 1960s, feature works such as Le Sacre du printemps, Scheherazade and Rhapsody in Blue. There is also Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein from 1960, an album on which the world of the symphony orchestra and that of jazz meet. The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble also played with the orchestra at Leonard Bernstein's invitation.

Listening

Listening tip. Listen to Le Sacre du printemps in one of the orchestra's recordings and notice the rhythmic force of the winds and the percussion. Ask yourself how a symphony orchestra can produce such pulsating, almost rock-like energy.

Discography

Studio albums

In School of Rock

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