Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Philadelphia socialites took their apprehensions to the Academy of Music to hear Composer McDonald's new opus, entitled Lament for the Stolen. As the Philadelphia Orchestra and a black-&-blue clad chorus of 216 swung out under Eugene Ormandy's baton, listeners jumped and groped for their program notes. There they were partially reassured by reading: "The whole chorus, unaccompanied, announces fear and shock in a series of neoprimitive wails, punctuated by a shriek- the orchestra is agitated, and ... the soprano section speaks the words 'This is a terrible thing to be done...
...Baton Rouge, Louisiana State and Vanderbilt, two of the South's strongest powerhouses, held one another scoreless until almost the last minute. Then the home team suddenly set off fireworks. Result: Vanderbilt's first defeat of the season...
...players. Out of season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion of punctuality, spends hours over his scores, rehearses and performs with demon-like energy. Each morning he solemnly practices his baton before a mirror...
...rival organizations, but Charles D. Duffy '39, Crimson manager, declared yesterday, "If anybody defeats us, they'll do it." A huge WELCOME and CORNELL will stretch diagonally across the field tomorrow if all goes well with Duffy and his men. Bob Lannigan '39, who succeeded Bob Snyder '38 as baton-twirler, has recovered from an open blister on his hand from which he was suffering during the Brown game, and is expected to spin a good game...
Back to his baton after three years of musical silence went wax-mustached Bandmaster Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, lieutenant governor of Washington. Said he, after leading his brand-new band in Seattle's Trianon Dance Hall: "It's all right to be lieutenant governor...