History of the Orchestra

[Dave2002]

https://youtu.be/tNsZA6q8yH8?si=6urheZYt6hF7jCpX

This video is fun - enjoyable and also informative.

[richardfinegold]

I haven’t watched it yet but I enjoyed the cat toy video trailer.
I noticed one of the questions in the heading was “Who pays for it?” I am reading a Furtwangler biography and am on the part where he was being considered for the NYPhil in the late 1920s. One reason it went to Toscanini instead was because F refused to socialize with the big donors who funded the Orchestra. He preferred the European model where a few members of the Aristocracy paid the bills

[smittims]

And then they turned down Klemperer because he insisted on programming Mahler , who was unfashionable then. . How times change...

[mopsus]

I haven’t watched it yet but I enjoyed the cat toy video trailer.
I noticed one of the questions in the heading was “Who pays for it?” I am reading a Furtwangler biography and am on the part where he was being considered for the NYPhil in the late 1920s. One reason it went to Toscanini instead was because F refused to socialize with the big donors who funded the Orchestra. He preferred the European model where a few members of the Aristocracy paid the bills

The thinking behind that model still persists in some unexpected places. One major English church has two main morning services, one considerably more formal than the other. There nevertheless has to be a choir at the less formal 'family' one, even though it has little to do, because some major donors to a recent large capital project attend that service.