111:. The annual pilgrimage to the mountain at daybreak continues today. At the pinnacle of Behymer’s career, an average season would include about 250 bookings in about 250 cities in California and the West. Behymer started his career offering a variety of entertainment programming that would appeal to all segments of the then-small population. He would mix operatic performances with the likes of
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Many of the most famous individual artists in the musical, dramatic, scientific, historical and literary worlds have appeared in Los
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Angeles its first important operatic production by the National Grand Opera Company. The first symphony orchestra in Los Angeles was organized by Behymer, who managed it for 18 years. He formed the Philharmonic courses in the larger cities of the
27:(November 5, 1862 – December 16, 1947) was a music and theatrical manager in California for 60 years. In a time of theatrical and musical management typically dominated by large corporations, "Bee," as he was known, operated independently. Upon his death, Rabbi
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