Happy Birthday to us! 75 years ago we gave our first ever concert. This marked a historic moment for Columbus` musical landscape. Published in 1951, this Columbus Dispatch article gives a look into the formation of what we now know as the Columbus Symphony Orchestra! During it`s founding the Columbus Symphony has had a claim of uniqueness as being founded entirely by women with it`s first president Mrs. W. Wallace Mountcastle.
On our very first concert, conducted by George Hardesty at the OSU Archaeological & Historical Museum (now Sullivant Hall), we played the following music:
Gounod`s Ballet Music from Faust
Honegger`s A Summer Pastorale
Jacob`s Divertimento
Mozart`s Symphony #40 in G minor, k.550
Strauss`s Wine, Women, & Song
The musicians who played on this inaugural concert were:
Mina Buchsbaum, violin
Marya Giesey, violin
Adrienne Hawh, violin
Rebecca Jenkins, violin
Sally Needham, violin
Gene Taylor, violin
Richard Van Meter, violin
Leonard Eisner, violin
Harriet Heine, violin
Winston Hole, violin
Louise McLean, violin
Shutak, violin
Lillian Yenkin, violin
Mary Lane, viola
Harris monosoff, viola
William Sims, viola
Alice Carothers, cello
Fruchtman, cello
Richard Watzulik, cello
Jack Dale, bass
Theron McClure, bass
Caroline Utz, bass
Donald McGinnis, flute & clarinet
Laura Ruth Titus, flute
Ezra Kotzin, oboe
William Poland, oboe
Robert Titus, clarinet
Andrew Valkuchak, bassoon & horn
William Kearns, horn
Julian Leet, horn
Richard Hightshoe, trumpet
Forrest Stole, trumpet
Jack Evans, trombone
Glenn Harriman, trombone
charles Hance, percussion
Head to columbussymphony.com to help us celebrate our 75th anniversary!
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