https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633#respond Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:29:56 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1633 Salvador Dalí came to New York for the first time in 1934. In a symptom of the Civil War to come, the provincial government of Catalonia had unilaterally declared independence from Spain. The subsequent street fighting terrified him and he would not return to Spain for many years. He was Catalonian]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633/feed 0 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1380 Thu, 01 May 2003 03:29:42 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1380 On December 14, 1894 Edward MacDowell performed his Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Anton Seidl. Although it had been first performed in Boston some five years before, the concerto had not previously been performed here. After all, before]]>