Word: chestra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between 1922 and 1928, when the Xew York Symphony merged with the Philharmonic, Mr. Flakier spent $1.048,152 on the Damrosch Or- chestra. (His father made the Flakier fortune on Standard Oil. Florida railroads.) The Philharmonic's operating expenses will amount to $686,000 this season. Salaries for 108 musicians and three conductors amount to $438,861. Receipts are estimated at $545.826. Neither Mr. Mackay nor Mr. Flagler felt able to help finance the orchestra this season. Bank loans made it possible. The Leipzig Gcivamlhaits Orchestra is older. *When Toscanini sailed last spring for Europe a little pile...
...career for which his parents had educated him. Stokowski invited Rodzinski to be his assistant in Philadelphia. He stayed there four years, then went to Los Angeles which began to have its financial worries last winter when William Andrews Clark Jr. announced that he could support the Or chestra for only one more season (TIME, Oct. 30). Los Angeles like Cleveland needed a new conductor for the sake of its boxoffice. It released Rodzinski from a contract which had another year to run, called towering Otto Klemperer from Berlin...