Word: began
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Portland (Ore.) Symphony began its 19th season, its fifth under Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten. This year's program includes ten Monday-evening concerts, five Sunday matinees, five concerts for young people. A special feature will be the presentation during the Christmas season of Handel's Messiah...
...Omaha Symphony, managed by the Women's Division of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, began its sixth season under Conductor Sandor Harmati. New this year will be three graded series of educational concerts. Again several appearances will be made in nearby Council Bluffs, Iowa...
...Syracuse Symphony, under Conductor Vladimir Shavitch, began its ninth season. Among the six soloists announced is Hallie Stiles, Syracuse daughter who has scored at the Paris Opera Comique and this year joins the Chicago Civic Opera Company (TIME...
...resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept...
...Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what he had heard of Wall Street. She looked grim, so he ran away to Minneapolis...