Maude Winthrop Gibbon and Martha Laurens Patterson founded the orchestra in 1936. The orchestra gave its first concert on 28 December 1936, conducted by Tony Hadgi, at the Dock Street Theatre.
The founding of the orchestra occurred in 1936 by Maude Winthrop Gibbon and Martha Laurens Patterson. Their inaugural performance took place on December 28, 1936, with Tony Hadgi as conductor at the Dock Street Theatre.