Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard-Virginia-Maryland clash in the one mile relay will be the outstanding event of the evening from the Crimson view point. Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, A. H. O'Neil '28, W. C. Peet '28 and G. A Tupper '29, will carry the baton for the University. The last three have already seen action in the Knights of Columbus meet against Holy Cross. The Purple flashed across the line ahead of the Crimson runners, but the addition, of Haggerty, who was unavailable on account of a knee injury, will strengthen the stick carriers. The Virginia and Maryland teams...
...early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly the tone poem, that free vehicle for originality. His melodious yet powerful Don Juan, an early work, remains his most popular tone poem...
...music is to be performed and his centenary this year officially celebrated by the French Republic. Again the spirit of Locarno walks abroad and soon the movements of a symphony will bring again to mind the well cooked courses of the trout concerto. The wave of a French baton over a German score will add a pretty flourish to the hopeful tune of "Hands Across the Rhine...
...Stokowski and made it necessary for Assistant Arthur Rodzinski to conduct the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Last week in Carnegie Hall, he had enough of enforced idleness, made up his mind to disappoint his audience no longer. His right arm in a sling, he gritted his teeth, picked up the baton with his left, conducted the Kaminski "Concerto Grossi" single-and-left-handed. The pain was too great. He had to retire. The audience extended him an ovation. His former wife, Olga Samaroff, able music critic of the New York Evening Post, wrote: "Dr. Rodzinski could not replace Stokowski...
...Freshmen will be divided according to their dormitories, and they will practice in these groups for their final competition Dr. Davison also plans that each dormitory shall have an orchestra to accompany the singing. A cup goes to the hall with the winning chorus at the Jubilee, and a baton is the prize for its leader...