Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge Arthur McComb of Los Angeles Superior Court ordered Actor Marshall to appear before him on July 29 to show why he should not be enjoined from fulfilling his Warner Brothers contract. But the judge issued no restraints or injunctions...
Three weeks ago 45 members of Boston's Symphony Orchestra began giving experimental, free, outdoor concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 15). Last week the experiment could no longer be considered experimental. The attendance had amazed even optimistic Conductor Arthur Fiedler. His nightly audiences, numbering between 5.000 and 8,000 are twice as large as a wintertime full-house at Symphony Hall...
...Arthur Fiedler conceived and accomplished the Esplanade concerts himself. His is a new name to nationwide concertgoers, but his musical lineage is a proud one. He was born 35 years ago in Boston, the son of Boston Symphonist Emmanuel Fiedler, who played second violin in the famed Kneisel Quartet. Fiddler Fiedler named his boy after the late great violinist Artur Nikisch, onetime Boston Symphony conductor. Aged 6, the boy studied violin with his father, piano with his mother. Later he went to Boston Latin School and studied piano with Carl Lamson, longtime accompanist to Fritz Kreisler...
...Fiedler Sr. retired, took his family to Europe. Since he did not wish Arthur to follow music, the boy ran errands for a Berlin publisher. After five weeks, his head full of harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp...
...Boston, when Conductor Agide Jacchia of the Boston Symphony's "Pop" (popular) concerts suddenly resigned on the night before the season's finale, Arthur Fiedler was given the baton. He was ready for it, the first Boston-born conductor to lead the Boston Symphony...