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 ...

Composer Roy Harris lay, right leg from hip to toe in plaster, in a Pittsburgh hospital after an automobile accident, but his spirit was with Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra as ...

Here are two Christmas favorites with impressive forces behind them: the carols "Away in a Manger" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus, and conductor Eugene ...

The first time an American orchestra visited China, Western classical music was banned. (SOUNDBITE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN'S "SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR, OP. 125 'CHORALE'") SUMMERS: It was 1973, and ...