"Coming to the Small Screen: Ormandy and Television" presents photographs, correspondence, and newspaper articles documenting television performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra during the Ormandy era. The orchestra made television history by appearing in the first telecast orchestra concert in 1948, and during the 1950s and early 1960s, orchestra management worked closely with network executives and independent producers in attempt to secure airtime for the orchestra on national television. Late in the 1970s--just a few years before Ormandy's retirement--the European firm Unitel filmed five Philadelphia Orchestra concerts for worldwide distribution. Find out more about the orchestra's early television appearances--and Ormandy's hopes for the new medium--by visiting the exhibit, located in the Eugene Ormandy Exhibition Gallery in the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library on the west end of the fourth floor of the Van Pelt Library.

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Richard Griscom