Tag: Eugene Ormandy
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Gives a Haydn Masterpiece a Local Premiere
The programming of music by Haydn is unusual for The Philadelphia Orchestra. The choice is even more surprising coming from conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who...
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Presents The Rachmaninoff Festival
During his lifetime, Sergei Rachmaninoff was more famous as a pianist than as a composer. Logically, therefore, The Philadelphia Orchestra’s current Rachmaninoff Festival is...
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Performs Mozart and Brahms
During the 44 years when Eugene Ormandy was music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra (1936 to 1980), he led almost every concert. There was...
An Interview with Richard Glazier, Host of ‘From Broadway to Hollywood,’...
If you want to call Richard Glazier a throwback, go right ahead. He loves it. For Glazier, there’s nothing better than sitting at a...