Twenty-five years of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1900-1925

The Women’s Committees in Harrisburg, Allentown, Lancaster and Trenton. The Women’s Committee and the First Ten Thousand. The Germantown and Chestnut Hill Women’s Committee. The...

ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER, ESQ. _Opposite_ 16 FRITZ SCHEEL _Opposite_ 31 MRS. ALEXANDER J. DALLAS DIXON _Opposite_ 48 SCHEEL MEMORIAL TABLET _Opposite_ 85 CARL POHLIG _Opposite_...

“On Tuesday next, the 25th inst., at the Assembly Room in Lodge Alley will be performed a Concert of Music, under the direction of Mr. John Palma; to begin exactly at six o’clock.

The last turn of the road was a long one. It led from Germany to New York, to the World’s Fair in Chicago, to San Francisco, back to New York and to Woodside Park, Philadelphia....

With the first steps safely passed and the Philadelphia Orchestra organized, the period of financial difficulty began. In 1901-1902 fourteen pairs of concerts in the regular ser...

These were formed to promote out-of-town concerts in Harrisburg, Lancaster, Allentown and Trenton. In 1902-03, during the second season of concerts in those cities, it became ev...

There are a few satisfactory ways of financing an orchestra, but there are a number of unsatisfactory ways, and maintaining or trying to maintain a Guarantee Fund is one of them...

But while the Board of Directors was in a continuous state of anxiety about the expenses; and the guarantors were being kept up to the mark; and the three Women’s Committees the...

The Board of Directors was now obliged to find a new conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra. A survey of America did not bring fruitful results. Orchestral conductors were few...

The summer of 1912 brought the Board of Directors, for the second time in five years, face to face with the problem of securing a conductor. Again the place was waiting for the...

ASSISTING FORCES: Una Poenitentium, FLORENCE HINKLE, Soprano Magna Peccatrix, INEZ BARBOUR, Soprano Mater Gloriosa, ADELAIDE FISCHER, Soprano Mulier Samaritans, MARGARET KEYES,...

The question of placing the Philadelphia Orchestra on a firm financial foundation had been under consideration for a long time by the Board of Directors. Each year the Guarantee...

One year after the offer of the Unknown Donor had been accepted by the Board of Directors, the United States was in a state of war. The condition of Europe during the past three...

During the war the Seven Year Endowment Fund continued to be paid in showing that Philadelphians were learning to prize what they had. But the Board of Directors was now faced w...

The Twentieth Anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra was celebrated on November 19th and 20th, 1920; and great was the rejoicing that this city possessed an orchestra of such...

Occasionally philanthropic citizens express the wish that the Philadelphia Orchestra was not conducted exclusively for a few idle rich. Therefore, it is well to record some of t...

Long before the project of a permanent orchestra for Philadelphia received any degree of public support, the newspapers of this city in a body used their influence in favor of s...

The largest portion of this story has been devoted to the orchestra itself, and the people who founded it, supported it and endowed it. Now comes the turn of the party of the th...

First, the Association:[40] comprising the subscribers to the Endowment Funds of $25.00 or more, and the yearly subscribers to tickets for the regular series of concerts; and a...

The point of the story is the music that the Philadelphia Orchestra makes. It would be a tragedy if after twenty-five years anyone could ask “Why?” A tragedy for the officers an...