Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...title role. The prima donna herself was in a box. Her appearance was made the occasion for one of those curious scenes now inseparable from Mme. Farrar's public visits to her native city. When she entered the box, house and orchestra rose simultaneously and faced her, the conductor waved his baton like an acolyte offering incense, and the band played "My Country Tis of Thee." During the entre-acte, Mme. Farrar sang the national anthem in the presence of the enraptured house. There can be no question that patriotic America is seen at her best on a first night...
...judges were Dr. John Hyatt Brewer, conductor of the Apollo. Club of Brooklyn; Dr. Frank Damroach, director of the Institute of Musical Art, and Mr. Frank Woodruff...
...program equally concerns itself with classic and modern numbers, to show the abilities of the orchestra in executing chromatic as well as melodic compositions. Modeste Eugene Alloo, the conductor, has paid particular attention to the selection of the modern pieces, with the view of bringing out the finer points in modern French and Belgian music. The "piece de resistance" of the entire program will be the "Unfinished Symphony" by Schubert, a number very rarely offered by concert artists in this country...
Sunday, February 11, 4 P. M.--Concert by the Glee Club of the Harvard Club; Malcolm Lang '02, conductor...
Sunday, February 18, 4 P. M.--Concert by the Footlight Orchestra, Charles F. Manney, conductor, assisted by Miss Edith Bullard, soprano, and Mr. Walter N. Kilburn, organist...