Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chicago music lovers were squirming last winter under the worst Chicago operas they had ever heard. Conductor Ebba Sundstrom was swooping her Woman's Symphony Orchestra through its tenth, most gratifying season (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Long before her last concert it became clear that the Opera's loss was the Symphony's gain, that the woman's orchestra might look for more subscriptions, bigger patrons this autumn. Flushed with success, many patrons felt that a more dynamic, impressive conductor than Ebba Sundstrom should be billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe...
Blond, graceful Leopold Stokowski mounted the stand, back as guest conductor with the Orchestra he left last spring to go to Hollywood (TIME, Oct. 19). Conductor Stokowski took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...
First in the limelight tonight is the concert to be given by the combined Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs in Sprague Hall and which will be attended by a large crowd of undergraduates and their guests. Following this the crowd will flock to formal dances which are being held in five of the academic and Sheffield fraternities around the campus. Most of the fraternities have engaged well known orchestras and entertainers for the evening and dancing will last until 2:00 o'clock in the morning and in the case of St. Anthony till 5:00 o'clock...
...joint numbers with Yale will close the concert: "March of the Peers" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe", and "Bright College Years...
Fifty members of the Glee Club will present a joint concert with Yale this evening in Woolsey Hall at New Haven, scheduled for 8:15 o'clock. This is the first performance away from home since the presentation of "Faust" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Providence last month...