New York Philharmonic’s Archives Going Online (Published 2014)

Just a year after the members of the brand-new New York Philharmonic adopted their first constitution in 1842 — players were to be paid $25 a season for three concerts, to rehearse every other Saturday and to be fined $5 for missed concerts — they passed some new bylaws. “All indecorum of the members is strictly forbidden at all the Society’s meetings,” one rule read, banning “smoking, the wearing