Word: boult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Magic," on the same bill, tells the story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during the war. The movie is acted by actual Orchestra members, and therefore lacks professional finish. But if you're interested in seeing Constant Lambert, Sir Adrian Boult, and the Philharmonic in action, it's worth sitting through...
...Albert Camus (The Plague) is one of Davis' most active and effective workers. Andre Gide has lent the movement his considerable prestige, and so have the British food expert Sir John Boyd Orr (elevated this week to the peerage), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and Orchestra Conductor Sir Adrian Boult...
Even the swarms of eager young musicians whose war-stunted careers are blossoming out all over England cannot adequately fill the ranks of the nine symphony orchestras in London. Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since...
...larger Adelphi Theater he has had to turn away crowds. Last week's show at the Adelphi sold better than the last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor Richard Tauber stuck it out for two hours, then said politely: "This is ... a complete change from the music to which I am accustomed...
Baldish, moustachioed Sir Adrian Boult, who heads the crack BBC Symphony Orchestra, boasts that "blood seldom flows at my rehearsals." But last week his musicians were up in arms: bad blood was up, if not flowing...