You never know what might arrive in the mail. A few days ago, we received a package from our friends at the New York Philharmonic Archives, and it contained a number of early Theodore Thomas pro...

Theodore Thomas, the Chicago Orchestra's first music director, died on January 4, 1905. For many years after, the Orchestra would dedicate the first concerts of the new year to his memory, frequently p...

[caption id="attachment_16101" align="alignright" width="267"] Theodore Thomas[/caption] In early 1889, Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay encountered Theodore Thomas—then one of the most famous con...

On January 4, 1905, Theodore Thomas, the Orchestra’s founder and first music director since 1891, died at his home on Bellevue Place in Chicago. He had contracted influenza during rehearsals for Orc...