Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flower of contemporary music, he second number will be especially noteworthy. Professor Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms...
Boston, according to a recent statement by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, "is the most esthetic and intellectual city in the U. S." Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...
...Detroit, symphonophiles made an event of the return of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, gave him a tremendous ovation. Last year would have been Conductor Gabrilowitsch's tenth in Detroit. Instead he took leave of absence and guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. This year he will go again to Philadelphia for the few mid-season weeks when Leopold Stokowski takes his holiday. Substitutes then in Detroit will be his able Assistant Conductor Victor Kolar and Guests Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari...
...first concert in memory of Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, wife of the famed Chicago philanthropist. In the spring, shortly before her death, Mrs. Rosenwald (with Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Mrs. Ernest R. Graham, Mrs. Charles H. Swift and others) gave $1,000 toward the orchestra's upkeep. Under Conductor Ebba Sundstrom, the orchestra played its thanks. Katherine Witwer, Gary, Ind., girl, sang...
...Manhattan this winter may be heard also the new Manhattan Symphony, under Conductor Henry Hadley; the Conductorless Orchestra; and the Friends of Music which will have for the first time its own orchestra under Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who will devote to it his full time...