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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crew X--Stroke, Robert Winthrop '26; 7, Geoffrey Platt '27; 6, J. W. Gates '27; 5, G. R. Johnson '25; 4, D. C. Gates '26; 3, V. F. Righter '26; 3, O'D. Iselin '26; bow, H. C. Peirce '27; cox., C. S. Heard 3E.S...
Tonight at 8 o'clock the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its sixth Cambridge concert at Sanders Theatre. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the orchestra in a program noteworthy for its seldom-heard numbers. The soloist will be Paul Kachauski, a violinist who is known to Boston audiences through several performances in past years...
Often has an audience of the Copley Players been known to smile; occasionally, indeed, it has been heard to chuckle; but never has it been led to laugh so hilariously as on Monday evening at the production of "The Torchbearers...
Interrupted by a bitter and irrelevent crescendo of musketry, the music of Richard Wagner ceased, in 1917, to be heard at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. This winter has been revived The Ring of the Nibelungen-famed cycle which includes Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces...
...tenths of our time and energy is spent in writing appraisals of performances. The music, most of it, is not new, and what we write, when boiled down, amounts to but little more than saying that it was performed better or worse than it was the last time we heard it. Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture...