Florestan Club
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The Florestan Club was a social club in Baltimore, Maryland. They founded the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
in 1915, ensuring that it was municipally-funded.
Members included H. L. Mencken
.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a professional American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.In September 2007, Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra’s twelfth music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.The BSO Board...
in 1915, ensuring that it was municipally-funded.
Members included H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the...
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