Philharmonic Orchestra facts
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Sorrell Booke ("Boss Hogg") had degrees from Yale and Columbia, spoke 5 languages, was an intelligence officer in the Korean War, once conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, wore a fat suit to play Boss Hogg
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The Vienna Philharmonic did not accept women into the orchestra until 1997 when they granted full member status to a harpist who had been playing with the orchestra for 27 years
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In 1925 Marian Anderson won first prize in a singing contest put on by the New York Philharmonic. She performed with the orchestra as a result.
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New York Philharmonic orchestra performed in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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Bobby McFerrin led the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra in an a cappella rendition of the "William Tell Overture," in which the orchestra members sang their musical parts instead of playing their parts on their instruments.
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra created this glorious masterpiece.
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In 2008 the New York Philharmonic Orchestra made the first significant cultural visit from the United States to North Korea since the Korean War, when they performed in East Pyongyang Grand Theatre.
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'telefonny' orchestras, groups of musicians touring the world pretending to be famous philharmonic orchestras.
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The size of a CD was specified so as to be able to contain the entirety of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc.
