Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

James Fuld Collection

  • [Program for the first performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, in Coventry Cathedral, on 30 May 1962, conducted by the composer].

  • [Program for the first performance of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, at the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), 1956-1957 season, conducted by Nino Sanzogno].

  • [Program for the first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddygore (later Ruddigore), at the Savoy Theatre (London), on 22 January 1887, conducted by the composer].

  • [Program for the first performance of Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley, at the Indiana University Auditorium (Bloomington, Ind.), on 15 July 1948].

  • [Program for the first performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, at the Opera House of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), on 8 September 1971].

  • [Program for the first performance of Mendelssohn's Elias (in English, as Elijah), at the Birmingham Music Festival, on 26 August 1846, conducted by the composer].

  • [Program for the first performance of Michael Tippett's Midsummer Marriage, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 27 January 1955, conducted by John Pritchard].

  • [Program for the first performances by The Palestine Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, on 26, 30, and 31 December 1936, conducted by Arturo Toscanini].

  • [Program for the first performances of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, on 1 and 2 December 1944, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky].

  • [Program for the first performances of Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, at the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), on 11, 13, and 14 September 1951, conducted by the the composer (11 September) and Ferdinand Leitner (13 and 14 September)].