Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick Stock, was one of those times...
...audience thundered applause when Papa Stock entered, lifted his baton to begin a Festival Fanfare which he had written for the jubilee. Next to Stainer's Sevenfold Amen, the Fanfare was probably the longest (ten minutes) ever composed, gave every instrument in the orchestra something to do, finally had even the Schellenbaum (manned by a percussionist) shaking like a hula dancer...
Pretty Violet Mulvenna, 19-year-old American Legion champion drum-majorette, student at University of Mississippi, stepped off a train at Atlanta for the Georgia-Mississippi football game, tossed her twirling baton in the air. When it came down it broke her nose. Next day, between halves of the game (score: Mississippi, 28; Georgia, 14), doctors let her get up. Nose-patched, baton-twirling, she led the parade...
Exceptional ability in the art of high stopping, strutting and baton-twirling as well as feminine magnetism has earned Miss Loomis many prizes, among them the California Drum Majorette Championship. At present she is attending the Hollywood Professional School for models and actresses. "But I could certainly find time to work at Harvard. she quickly added...
...some of these festivals, which are designed to soothe rather than to stimulate, the musicians loll through the program like their audience. Not so the musicians of the impeccable Boston Symphony, who, under the fastidious baton of Serge Koussevitzky, delicately perform each year a carefully chosen sheaf of symphonies for visitors and tourists at Stockbridge in Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills. In & around an acoustically perfect, wedge-shaped $80,000 pavilion (called with New England sobriety a "Music Shed"), which rises on the greensward at Tanglewood, where Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote, visiting Boston Brahmins and socialites, whether lying down or sitting...