Twenty-five Years of the Philadelphia Orchestra

About this eBook

Author

Wister, Frances Anne, 1874-1956

Title

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

Original Publication

Philadelphia: Women's Committees for the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1925.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Philadelphia Orchestra

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76214

Release Date

June 2, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Twenty-five Years of the Philadelphia Orchestra
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.PART I
8. 8.Chapter I — The Philadelphia Symphony Society 1893-1900. — Prospectus of Philadelphia Permanent Orchestra
9. 9.Chapter II The Last Turn of the Road — “ Committee of Women — “ A Plan to Develop the Orchestral Resources of Philadelphia
10. 10.Chapter III Early Years — The Strauss Concerts
11. 11.Chapter IV The Women’s Committees for the Philadelphia Orchestra — The Germantown and Chestnut Hill Women’s Committee — The West Philadelphia Women’s Committee — The Media, Chester and West Chester Women’s Committee, Since 1923, The Delaware County Women’s Committee — Women’s Committees in Other Places Delaware Committee Wilmington Formed June 29th, 1905 Officers — The Baltimore Committee Formed May, 1906 — The Washington Committee — The Atlantic County Committee — The Twentieth Anniversary of the Women’s Committee — The Auxiliaries — The Anniversary Ball for the Benefit of the Chorus — The Opera Supper Dances
12. 12.Chapter V The Guarantors and the Guarantee Fund
13. 13.Chapter VI The Death of Fritz Scheel — The Scheel Memorial Tablet — The Future — The Musical Record 1900-1907 — A Tribute
14. 14.PART II
15. 15.Chapter I The Next Step — The Musical Record, 1907-1912
16. 16.PART III
17. 17.Chapter I The Coming of Leopold Stokowski — The New York Performance
18. 18.Chapter II The Seven Year Endowment Fund, 1916
19. 19.Chapter III The Orchestra During the World War — Liberty Loans — The Tribute Trees
20. 20.Chapter IV The Twentieth Anniversary Million Dollar Endowment Fund, 1919 — Chairmen — Women Chairmen — Synopsis of the Results :
21. 21.Chapter V Twenty Years of Progress
22. 22.Chapter VI Musical Neighbors
23. 23.Chapter VII The Support of the Public Press
24. 24.Chapter VIII The Listeners
25. 25.Chapter IX The Twenty-fifth Anniversary
26. 26.Chapter X The Point of the Story
27. 27.APPENDIX
28. 28.Appendix A
29. 29.Appendix B
30. 30.Appendix C
31. 31.Appendix D
32. 32.Appendix E
33. 33.Appendix F
34. 34.Appendix G
35. 35.Appendix H
36. 36.Appendix I
37. 37.Appendix J
38. 38.Appendix K
39. 39.Appendix L
40. 40.Appendix M
41. 41.Appendix N
42. 42.Untitled

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