Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Winthrop and Dunster have engaged syncopating outfits of Jimmie Carmedy, but Jimmy himself will wield the baton at the Puritan frolic. Undaunted, the Dunster committee has announced that their orchestra will be under the direction of Karl Kunze...
...play Porgy left impressions which presented a stiff challenge for a Broadway-bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...Manhattan last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
...with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin' and nuthin's plenty for me." As the tempo mounted and the crowd joined in, chairs were to rock faster, one old black woman was to take to sharpening her carving-knife, another to whisking her dustcloth up & down like a crazy baton...
While Huey Pierce Long was being buried at Baton Rouge last week the Press found time to take stock of painful inadvertencies caused by his assassination...