Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baronet's Baton...
...band played "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." He, pleased, mounted the stage, took the conductor's baton, led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the last number of the program. He was William Andrews Clark Jr., guarantor of the orchestra. He had just pledged financial backing (lacking which the orchestra was about to disband) for another five years...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
...Warsaw, Poland, a bandleader waved his baton, a violinist scratched his fiddle, other members of a jazz-orchestra made their respective sounds. For 33 hours and ten minutes the bandleader lead his determined performers through one jazz song after another, an interval of 45 seconds distinguishing each song from its successor. Then the bandleader stopped, mopped his face, and claimed that his orchestra had gained a record-the record for playing longer than any other jazz-orchestra...
...never be without a soloist of the first magnitude so long as it can keep Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Last week he brought it eastward for its first Manhattan concert of the season, as conductor put it through the Don Juan of Richard Strauss and Brahms' First Symphony; gave his baton to Victor Kolar and turned pianist for Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto. Critics and audience alike had unqualified approval for Conductor-Pianist Gabrilowitsch, musician & poet, for the Detroit Symphony, waxing stronger each season. The verdict for the best orchestral demonstration of the season, however, remained unchanged, stayed with Sergei Koussevitsky...