Context: The New York Philharmonic played its first concert on December 7, 1842. Since then, it has merged with the New York Symphony, the New/National Symphony, and had a long-running summer season at New York's Lewisohn Stadium. The [Performance History database](http://archives.nyphil.org/performancehistory) documents all known concerts of all of these organizations, amounting to more than 20,000 performances. Content: Dataset is a single csv with over 800k rows. Data contains information on season, orchestra, venue, date, time, conductor, work title, composer, movement, and soloists. Acknowledgements: This dataset was compiled by the [New York Philharmonic](http://archives.nyphil.org/performancehistory/#program). Original json files hosted [here](https://github.com/nyphilarchive). Original json files were flattened and joined on guid to form a single csv file. Image courtesy of [Larisa Birta](https://unsplash.com/@larisabirta). Inspiration: Nearly 175 years of performance history, covering over 11k unique works--which composers are most popular? Have there been any trends in popularity by conductor or by season?