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...Igor Stravinski, most famous of modern composers, will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program of selections from his own works at Sanders Theater tonight at 8 o'clock. This is the first time Stravinski has conducted the Boston Symphony, to which he has dedicated certain of his works, and one of the first times he has ever conducted in America...
...presented on Sunday afternoon, March 17, at Symphony Hall. The program contains familiar Wagnerian excerpts including the overture to the opera "Tannhauser." In addition, Feodor Chaliapin, noted Russian basso, is to be heard with the orchestra in selections from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov" and from the opera "Prince Igor...
Tomorrow evening the sixth concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be held in the Sanders Theater at 8 o'clock. Igor Stravinsky will conduct...
...lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...
...Baron Igor Ivan Sikorsky first became interested in aviation when, aged 13, he observed the family wash flapping in the breeze. His interest in multi-motored flight was due largely to a mosquito. Born a Russian subject, in 1889, son of a wealthy psychology professor at Kiev University, he built his first flying-machine (a helicopter) at the age of 18, was jeered by crowds when it failed to rise. His second helicopter rose 5 ft. before collapsing. Thereafter young Sikorsky built a 15-h.p. biplane (S-1), followed by two others of more horsepower. All three crashed, because Igor...