On this day in 1970, President Richard Nixon went to Philadelphia to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Eugene Ormandy on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 70th anniversary. Ormandy was born in ...

The kind of reward that pinch-hitters dream of came last week to Eugene Ormandy, young Hungarian conductor who a month ago was called upon to substitute for Arturo Toscanini in Philadelphia (TIME, Nov ...

I played a lot of repertoire with him. At one point he said he’d like to record with me, so I asked Decca if they would let me do it and we recorded Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, in Philadelphia ...

History sometimes has a way not only of repeating but of reversing itself. In 1943 the Philadelphia Orchestra, having recorded since its earliest days exclusively for RCA Victor, startled the record ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, proved why it was “perhaps the finest in the world,” during a performance at Expo ’74. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra ...

The blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to heights of pure sound, not intriguing interpretations, a new box set shows. By David Allen Something ...

On this day in 1970, President Richard Nixon went to Philadelphia to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Eugene Ormandy (1899-1985) on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 70th anniversary. Ormandy’s ...

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