New York Philharmonic arrives at Bravo! Vail

By Chris Freud

The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert on Dec. 7, 1842, with the American premiere of some piece known as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.This new-fangled orchestra was the first in the United States to play what was then a relatively new piece of music. The Fifth had only been written 34 years previous in 1842.And Dec. 7 of that year was simply the seventh day of the last month of the year because likely very few people had an idea of where Hawaii was on a map. On Dec. 7, 1941, the New York Philharmonic was performing its weekly radio …

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