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N.T. Philharmonic Orchestra Ten internationally prominent composers have accepted invitations from the New York Philharmonic to compose works in celebration of the orchestra's inaugural season at Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts. The composers are: Samuel Barber, Leonard Berns:ein, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, William Schuman. Four of the composers were bom in the United States— Barber. Bernstein. Copland and Schuman. Of the remaining six, Chavez is Mexican; Ginastera, Argentine; Henze, German; Hindemith. American of German birth; Milhaud and Poulenc, both French. Composers of other nationalities were also invited to write works for the opening season, but for various reasons were unable to accept.
Though the Philharmonic has commissioned isolated works in the past —among ihem Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements —this is the first time that it has initiated a commissioning project of this magnitude.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29828, 22 May 1962, Page 16
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