MUSIC: Orchestras

These late-beginning orchestras played last week their season's inaugural music:

The Rochester (N. Y.) Philharmonic under Conductor Eugene Goossens gave the first of eleven concerts. This year it is coexistent with a Civic Orchestra, planned last year to provide employment for Eastman Theatre musicians when that theatre was leased to Publix Corp. The new orchestra, composed of 50 players (nucleus of the Philharmonic), financed by 10,000 Rochesterians, has begun a season of 75 concerts, 32 of which will be given free during schooltime to public and parochial students, 32 on Sunday afternoons...

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