Word: anspach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blond-mopped maestro tried a new move, exalting the engineers whom once he had scorned. In front of his dais on the Academy of Music stage a control desk was set up, with a maze of wires leading from it to the wings. Throughout the program LeRoy Anspach and Dunham Gilbert, two of Columbia Broadcasting System's crack engineers, sat there. Hitherto Stokowski's broadcasts have been monitored from a booth in the wings. But before last week's concert Stokowski announced that they played too vital a part to be kept in the background. His mind...
...radio listeners appreciate the importance of good engineers. In Philadelphia last week LeRoy Anspach, a capable pianist, followed the scores note by note. Some of the soft, eerie passages in Rachmaninoff's Island of the Dead might have been lost if Anspach had not pointed them out a second ahead of time to Engineer Gilbert who by a turn of the dial gave them proper volume. The thundering climaxes in Wagner's Götterdämmerung might have overloaded the amplifiers, resulted in blasts and distortion if the flow of electrical energy had not been monitored...