Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever Mr. Koussevitzky waves his baton, the world of vagabonds comes to attention, and follows the rest of the world to Symphony Hall. Tonight Mr. Koussevitzky will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fourth concert of the Monday evening series...
...short, thick figure of Arturo Toscanini stood on the conductor's dais at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week. Italians, Germans, Americans beat their palms together, cheered. Soon he turned his back on them, raised his baton. He was no longer Toscanini, but Ludwig van Beethoven-the Beethoven of the surging First and the grandiose Ninth Symphonies. He needed no score to make soloists of the thousand musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Beethoven was in his eyes, his fingertips, his baton. . . . The concert ended. There was a mighty ovation. The audience went home with its marrow tingling; critics groped...
...husband and a wife gave an all-German program at Steinway Hall, Manhattan, last week. The husband, Otto Klemperer, tall guest conductor of the New York Symphony, lifted no baton that night. Dramatic, he sat at the piano; his long fingers played accompaniments to four songs of his own composition, while his wife, Johanna Klemperer, sang. Her voice, except when she lifted it above F sharp, was rich, colorful, expressive. The song "Es war ein Koenig in Thule" was the most original...
Louisiana State University (and Agricultural and Mechanical College), at Baton Rouge, La., in search of a president, singled out Major Campbell Blackshear Hodges, commandant of cadets* at West Point. Though the university is coeducational, this choice was not unusual, nor need foes of military training in the colleges have become excited. Louisiana State has long had a cadet corps. In 1911 Major Hodges commanded it, teaching Spanish at the same time. He is well-known in the state, having organized its militia (1915-17). Square-cut, with steel-grey hair and large brown eyes, he would doubtless be a president...
Coach E. L. Farrell has entered captain E. C. Haggerty '27, A. H. O'Neil '28, W. C. Peet '28, and G. A. Tupper '29 in the feature one-mile relay against the Universities of Maryland and Virginia two of the fastest baton carrying combinations in the country. Tupper starred on his Freshman relay team. The Crimson stick passers were defeated by a narrow margin in the Knights of Columbus 1560 yard relay when the Holy Cross runners broke the tape a few yards in the lead. The addition of Haggerty to the combination, however, will materially strengthen Harvard...