#dailydocument: A program of a 1991 @nycityopera performance of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana notated with handwritten commentary by critic and musicologist Edward Downes: bit.ly/2PrwKCn

#dailydocument Hand-painted glass lantern slide of Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (born this month in 1865). One of many slides from our Ernest Schelling Collection, used through the 1940s to illustrate the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts that Schelling founded.

60 years ago! Leonard Bernstein conducted a tour of the New York Philharmonic, which included performances at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu. The concerts celebrated the first anniversary of Hawaii becoming a part of the United States..🎻🌺🌸 📸 courtesy of the NYPhilDigitalArchive

These drawings by Lillian Freedgood, done in the late 1950s, portray members of the New York Philharmonic in rehearsal. Freedgood was a printmaker, painter, and sculptor. Check out the rest of the series here: bit.ly/2Qgv0wa #dailydocument

Since 1842 women were breaking glass ceilings at the New York Philharmonic. Get to know some of these pioneers, trailblazers 🔥, and innovators in an exhibit curated by the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives, presented in collaboration with Google Arts&Culture. #Project19 artsandculture.google.com/story/women-pi…

Thank you to National Endowment for the Humanities for the generous grant funding our Leon Levy Digital Archives over the next five years!

More on the just-announced grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, which will help sustain our Leon Levy Digital Archives well into the future. nyphil.org/whats-new/2020…