Eugene Ormandy A Centennial Celebration Curated by Marjorie Hassen Otto E. Albrecht Music Library University of Pennsylvania

Guest Engagements

Columbia Records release of Antonín Dvorák's Symphony no. 9
Recorded 7 November 1966, Watford Town Hall, London

Ormandy is generally associated only with the Philadelphia Orchestra; however, while he remained in the city throughout the better part of each concert season, he typically accepted guest conducting engagements during the summer months. In the course of his career he led most of the major American and European orchestras, conducted in Australia and South America, appeared at numerous music festivals, and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1950, conducting Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus.

Metropolitan Opera program for Fledermaus 20 December 1950

Curtain call for Fledermaus 20 December 1950

Ormandy conducting soprano Hilde Gueden Hollywood Bowl, ca. 1955

Ormandy conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, 1964

Program for Ormandy's performance with the Schweiz Festpielorchester, as part of the Internationale Musik-Festwochen, Luzern 1955
Program for 13 April 1955