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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

1963-09

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
  • Title
  • Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B005.F02.I07
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B005.F02.I07
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “ A Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert, taped in Pittsburgh by National Educational Television and WQED, is being seen and heard through the 73 stations of NET in the larger cities of the United States by more than 20,000,000 viewers.” With the world’s largest orchestra endowment, estimated at $460 million in the early 1970s, and under the careful tutelage of William Steinberg (pictured conducting), and Andre Previn (conducted the Symphony from 1976 until 1984), the Pittsburgh Symphony joined the top rank of American orchestras. William Steinberg had a prestigious career in his native Germany before fleeing the Nazis in 1936. He became Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952 and conducted until 1976.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    Steinberg, William.
    Music conductors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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