Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra glanced at their music, Song of the Volga Boatmen, scored for wind instruments and percussion, poised their instruments, as their eyes turned on the conductor. His baton twitched. "Boom" went the bass-drum in answer. It answered again and again, its portentious stroke punctuating the strains of the Boat Song, composed by Stravinsky, conducted by Stravinsky...
...which alone might have been enough to bring to the hall the notable company that filled it on that evening. The company had assembled, the pianos trundled into line, all to get money for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Walter Damrosch*, famed conductor, waved his baton; the thunderous regiment as one voice responded...
...Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave a concert. Leopold Stokowski, a detached and patrician figure with a perfect back, lifted his eyebrows at the audience, his baton at the orchestra. Unrivaled is the popularity of the Philadelphia Orchestra this year; unapproached the position of Conductor Stokowski. Novelty of this concert was the playing, for the first time in the U. S., of a violin concerto by Karol von Szymanowski which the composer dedicated to "mon ami," Violinist Paul Kochanski. Ami Kochanski was there himself, chin on instrument, to play the solo part...
...night in 1886 they were giving Aida at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores. Distraught, unmanned, hearing a crooked death in every venomous 'sss, that new conductor broke his baton over his knee, fled weeping from the house. From his lowly place among the cellos rose up then a young Italian, scuttled...
...home of Mrs. Vincent Astor, met the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic Society.* Chairman Clarence H. Mackay made announcements. He said that Arturo Toscanini had agreed to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of concerts next year. He added that Willem Mengelberg, tiny Dutch giant of the baton, had been reengaged for three years; that Wilhelm Furtwäengler, German conductor, will shortly appear in a guest engagement. Toscanini has not been heard in the U. S. since 1920, when he toured the country with his La Scala orchestra, gave a series of concerts which were lavishly heralded...