User:CalderVanGogh

I will soon be creating a page about Carlos Moseley, past-president of the New York Philharmonic. He "discovered" Leonard Bernstein in this capacity.

Many years ago, using a different email (lmno@mindspring.com), I started the pages on Baha'i and on Montessori. Very little of my first efforts remain; but those pages are quite beautiful.

Charles Raleigh NC --CalderVanGogh (talk) 02:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

http://nyphil.org/index.cfm

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D71E3AF933A1575BC0A966958260

For many who attend the free performances by the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera every summer in New York City's parks, the blaring sound and harsh timbres produced by the amplification system the two organizations share have been accepted as the cost of hearing music in the open air.

For many who attend the free performances by the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera every summer in New York City's parks, the blaring sound and harsh timbres produced by the amplification system the two organizations share have been accepted as the cost of hearing music in the open air. But since 1980 the Philharmonic, the Met, and the sound and lighting designer Peter Wexler have been planning an ambitious replacement system.

Tonight at 8 o'clock, the new $3.385 million Carlos Moseley Music Pavilion will make its debut when Zubin Mehta leads the New York Philharmonic in its final outdoor concert of the year. Mr. Moseley, the Philharmonic's 75-year-old chairman emeritus, established the orchestra's series of concerts in the parks in 1965 and will attend the performance.

The system named for him includes a new band shell and stage, with a computerized lighting system, a projection screen and 24 speaker towers, which are to be distributed through the audience area.

Besides introducing the new pavilion, the concert is to be a tribute to Carnegie Hall, in honor of its coming centennial, and an 80th-birthday salute to the composer William Schuman. The program includes Mr. Schuman's American Festival Overture, the Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D (Op. 43) and the Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor (Op. 26), with Isaac Stern as the soloist. There will also be fireworks.

Carlos Dupre Moseley was born Sept 21 1914 to Carlos Roland Moseley and Helen Allston Dupre, in Laurens SC. After the death of his father in 1927, his mother raised three small children. His mother became Postmaster in Spartanburg, SC and also took up painting at age 60. In 1935, he received the A.B. from Duke Univ. (P.B.K.)