On Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Symphony_Orchestra
Alternative Spellings DSO
Creation 1887, December 19th
Participants Sixten Ehrling - Conductor from 1963 to 1973
Neeme Järvi - Conductor from 1990 to 2005
Leonard Slatkin - Conductor from 2008
Antal Doráti - Conductor from 1977 to 1981
City Detroit, MI, United States
Country United States of America

The DSO performed the first concert on Monday, Dec. 19, 1887. The conductor was Rudolph Speil. He was succeeded in subsequent seasons by a variety of conductors until 1900 when Hugo Kalsow was appointed and served until the orchestra ceased operations in 1910. The Detroit Symphony resumed operations in 1914 when ten Detroit society women each contributed $100 to the organization and pledged to find 100 additional subscribers.

The appointment of the Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch as music director in 1918 brought instant status to the new orchestra. A friend of composers Gustav Mahler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, Gabrilowitsch demanded a new auditorium be built as a condition of his accepting the position. Under Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra quickly became one of the most prominent orchestras in the country. In 1922, the orchestra gave the world's first radio broadcast of a symphony orchestra concert. From 1934 to 1942, the orchestra performed for millions across the country as the official orchestra of The Ford Sunday Evening Hour national radio show.

In 1939, the orchestra moved from Orchestra Hall to the Masonic Temple Theatre due to major financial problems caused by the Great Depression. In the 1940s, the orchestra disbanded twice. In 1956, the orchestra moved to Ford Auditorium on the waterfront of the Detroit River, where it remained for the next 33 years. The orchestra once again enjoyed national prestige under music director Paul Paray, winning numerous awards for its 70 recordings.

In popular music, members of the orchestra provided the recorded string accompaniments on many of Motown Records's classic hits of the 1960s, usually under the direction of the orchestra's concertmaster of the time, Gordon Staples.

In 1989, following a 20-year rescue and restoration effort, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra returned to Orchestra Hall. Further renovations to the hall were completed in 2003, including a $60 million addition and a recital hall and education wing.

Neeme Järvi began his music directorship in 1990, and served through 2005, the second-longest in the orchestra's history. The DSO announced on October 7, 2007, the appointment of Leonard Slatkin as its twelfth music director.

The symphony has produced many recordings on the Victor, London, Decca, Mercury, RCA, Chandos and DSO labels. The DSO recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was the first CD to win the Grand Prix du Disque award. Wikipedia