Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society discovered it could save $4.75 if they went barehanded. Never has a Philharmonic concert been canceled. Only two have been postponed, one when Conductor Anton Seidl died suddenly, the other when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Radio has made the Philharmonic the world's most widely heard orchestra. Columbia Broadcasting System figured that 9,000,000 listened to Toscanini's birthday concert, the 2,981st concert that the Philharmonic has given. For its artistic prestige, never higher than during the last decade, the little 67-year-old Italian is responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera...
...took one of his stands last week when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many a Sunday afternoon subscriber remembered that he had made a speech three years ago when Signora Carla was home in Milan with a broken leg. At great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert, to everyone's amazement, the Maestro rushed up to the microphone and in his croaking voice said: "I send you my best greetings. I will sail in two days and I will...
...matches have been scheduled for this year of which three will be away from home. The schedule is as follows: Saturday, April 28, Cornell; Tuesday, May 1, Amherst; Wednesday, May 2, Graduates; Friday, May 4, Pennsylvania at Pennsylvania; Saturday, May 5, Columbia at Columbia; Wednesday, May 9, Brown at Brown; Friday, May 11, Princeton; Saturday, May 12, Dartmouth; Wednesday, May 16, Graduates; Saturday, May 19, Yale...
...such melodies and rhythyms. It has a bewitching Andante that is obviously sentimental but also passionate. The bohemian performers of the work have played it with unabashed exaggeration of its sentimentality and accentuation of the "native" rhythyms. The admirers of Sibelius' Second Symphony may be interested in the Columbia recording by one Robert Kajanus and a Symphony Orchestra. Despite the relatively unknown performers the interpretation is quite satisfactory...
This is the third of a series of three radio debates engaged in by the Harvard University Debating Council. Others have been with Columbia University and the Edward W. Quinn Debating Society...