Word: conductorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...
Once a year, however, as long as he keeps the Boston conductorship, Munch expects to go back where they know about such things. His two-year contract (with an optional third) allows him plenty of free time in the summers, and he and Madame Munch plan to spend their vacations in Paris...
...Bandleader Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians visited Pomona to make a movie on the campus, heard Shaw conduct, offered him a job in Manhattan. Shaw accepted, took over the conductorship of Waring's chorus. On the side he organized three 24-voice glee clubs for Broadway's Billy Rose, helped train the World's Fair Aquacade swimmers to swim in time to music...
...classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood to make movies, Philadelphia conservatives sighed with relief, but agreed sadly that the Orchestra would never be quite the same without...