Word: conductorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the time when Leroy Anderson took over the conductorship of the Band, which was approximately 1930, he began to compose original arrangements, almost always in medley form, in order to give the band something more unique to play than the regulation marches and the rather stolid, staightforward settings of college songs which had been largely the fare of college bands up to that time. One of his greatest successes, of course, was "Wintergreen for President" which he based on the famous song from Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing" which was published about 1930 or 31. Where the original...
Since I assumed conductorship of the Band in 1953, I have done considerable writing also. My list includes...
Faced with the loss of a hard-earned position, i.e., conductorship of Spain's National Orchestra, Argenta composed a second declaration. He was distressed. He apologized. He humbly affirmed that he was a musician and no writer. Perhaps, he explained, this accounted for the fact that he wrote something he really did not mean. His only aim had been to push and incite Spain's composers towards better production. Moreover, he had always been a convinced Falangist who "owes his personal peace, the peace of his family and the peace of his country to Franco and the Falangist...
...with his choices. If it was symphonies he cared for, he could take his pick of concerts by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic, a sensitive, if not great, new orchestra making its first tour of the U.S. under the conductorship of Serge Koussevitzky and Leonard Bernstein. In midweek, the New York Philharmonic offered a program specially tempting to musical conservatives: the first installment of a four-week Brahms cycle, conducted by Bruno Walter...