New York Philharmonic Copland's "Short Symphony" had been previously performed in New York only on a radio broadcast by the NBC Symphony conducted by Leopold Stokowski in 1944. Although scheduled for performance by the Philharmonic in 1953, the work was dropped from those programs and not given in concert performance this date. WORLD PREMIERE of Laurence Rosenthal's ODE NEW YORK PREMIERE of Aaron Copland's SYMPHONY NO. 2, "SHORT SYMPHONY" symphony orchestra performance 1957-01-24T20:45:00