Concert at Battery Park to celebrate the 35th anniversary of WNYC.

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Partial recording of a 90-minute "Noonday band concert" to celebrate WNYC's 35th anniversary, hosted by WNYC's Tommy Cowan

George F. Seuffert conducts the Local 802 band performing the following numbers:

"On the Mall" (Edwin Franko Goldman)
[Piece by Vincent Youmans]
"Alouette", with Leona May Smith, trumpet
"Panamericana" (Victor Herbert)
"Porgy and Bess" (George Gershwin)

Cowan alludes to Christopher C. Grabowski, who crossed the Atlantic in a sloop by himself and arrived in NY on July 5, 1959.

L. Porter Moore of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association speaks

Stanley Rose speaks on behalf of Manhattan Borough President Hulan E. Jack

WNYC's Seymour N. Siegel, Director of Communications of the City of New York, thanks Local 802 and the American Federation of Musicians, as well as Hulan Jack and the Parks Department.

Seuffert praises Herman Neuman and introduces a march expressly written by Jack Weiss, "On the Beam"; the piece is not heard though.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 74333
Municipal archives id: LT9057

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