This city’s namesake orchestra – one of the American “Big Five” – cultivated a lush, velvety string sound under the Hungarian-born conductor Eugene Ormandy. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city, where Ormandy directed that orchestra from 1938 to 1980 after taking over from Leopold Stokowski.
ANSWER: Philadelphia
[10e] Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra in the posthumous premiere of the third piano concerto by this fellow Hungarian. This composer also wrote The Miraculous Mandarin and a Concerto for Orchestra.
ANSWER: Béla Bartók [accept names in either order]
[10h] Prior to his appointment in Philadelphia, Ormandy directed the main orchestra in this other American city. In 2022, Osmo Vänskä (VEN-skeh) stepped down as music director of that same orchestra in this city after nearly 20 years at the helm, which were interrupted by a lockout from 2012 to 2014.
ANSWER: Minneapolis [reject “St. Paul”] (In Ormandy’s time the orchestra was called the Minneapolis Symphony; it is now the Minnesota Orchestra.)
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