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...Columbia. Two full evening hours a week go to the motor company, which is currently paying for time at the rate of some $1,800,000 a year. This season the Ford Symphony Orchestra will grind out time-honored classics on Sunday nights under such conductors as Victor Kolar, Eugene Ormandy, Alexander Smallens, Fritz Reiner. Fred Waring's band and entertainers will go after the young folks in half-hour periods, one on N. B. C., one on C. b. S., at other times in the week. For such talents Henry Ford will probably pay another...
...Belle Isle near Detroit this week the Detroit Symphony, heeled with $185,000 raised in a maintenance drive, was to begin the first series of free nightly concerts since 1931. Conductor: Victor Kolar of the Ford radio symphony...
Business Manager Murray Paterson of the Detroit Symphony proudly announced from Orchestra Hall that the season ended with all bills paid, that a financing drive for next season will be launched late this month. That spry, little Victor Kolar's Sunday Evening Ford Broadcasts boosted the Orchestra's finances, no one doubted...
...SUNDAY EVENING SYMPHONY--Victor Kolar directs the Ford Symphony Orchestra in a full hour of classical presentations. Each p r o g r a m features distinguished guest conductors or artists. Presenting the best in modern jaze in the Fred Waving broadcasts, the sportsor is certainly not neglecting the classics, for this program is one of the better of the symphonic hours. (CBS-WABC network, Sundays...
Fiddles & horns, conductors & opera stars last week entered the competition between General Motors and Henry Ford. Their start was simultaneous-Sunday 8 p. m. E. S. T. The Detroit Symphony fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century...