Word: friday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audiences that attend the Friday concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra are famous for their nonchalance. Lovers of music who have visited Philadelphia recount with indignation how rudely the people drift in, in casual ones and twos and in large box parties, always late?sometimes so late that when the curtain rises most of the seats are vacant. The Philadelphians, however, are rarely late for their teas. If the concert is long, they rise and leave, bowing to their friends and murmuring goodbyes, and hurry away to scones and cinnamon toast and caroling kettles, leaving the music to make its swanlike...
This is what music-lovers have often wished would happen. This, in substance, was what happened last Friday. Philadelphians were "dumbfounded by Stokowski's satire." Some applauded. Some hissed. Forty odd first-row patrons walked out. At last a conductor had had the courage to give a Philadelphia audience a few hints on behavior...
...players returned to Cambridge yesterday after the final performance of the tour in New York Friday night, and are now in readiness for a three nights' run in Boston. This will be the first real opportunity that the Boston public has had to see "1776," this year's much landed show, since almost all the seats in the Cambridge productions before vacation were taken by Harvard students and their intimate friends...
...Every Wednesday night during the winter term lectures, including several travel talks were held in Harvard Hall. These together with a number of motion picture shows have continued to draw large crowds every week. Addresses on science and art, which we had arranged, for two Friday evenings each month again proved popular...
...Harvard Club has arranged a supper to be held after the concert. The Harvard Club of Summit, N. J., will give a short reception for the Glee Club, also after the performance. The Harvard Association of Eastern New York, which has its headquarters in Albany, where on Friday the Club will give its final concert, has arranged a luncheon in honor of the Club...