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There were strange goings-on at Philadelphia's proud Academy of Music one afternoon last week. The stage was apparently deserted but emanating from it like phantom music came the shimmering sounds of Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter, reproduced as faithfully as if the Philadelphia Orchestramen were sitting in their accustomed places, the violins down front on the left of the stage, the brasses farther back on the right, with cymbals, bells and kettledrums behind. There were other weird happenings that afternoon. Footsteps sounded spookily on the empty stage. Voices were heard asking for hammers and saws...
...program is as follows: "Harvard Hymn" J. K. Paine '69 The Glee Club and Orchestra "Symphony in C-Major" Mozart The Orchestra "Two Choruses," from "Orpheus" Gluck The Glee Club and Orchestra "Danse des Bouffons," from "The snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov The Orchestra "Ecco Iam Noctes" G. W. Chadwick The Glee Club and Orchestra Prelude to "Oedipus Tyrannis" J. K. Paine '69 The Orchestra "Hallelujah Amen," from "Judas Maccabus" G. F. Handel The Glee Club and Orchestra
...program: Haytden's Toy Symphony Radcliffe Orchestra Holst's St. Paul Suite Combined Orchestras Hayden's Second Symphony First Movement Pierian Sodality Beethoven's Concerto in D Major Violin Solo by Priscilla Thierry Grieg's Herzwunden Der Fruhling Combined Orchestras Rimsky-Korsakov's Danse des Bouffons Pierian Sodality
...programme will include Mozart's "Symphony in C Major," Grieg's "Herzwunden und der Fruhling." Bach's "Suite in B-Minor," Rimsky-Korsakov's "Danse des Bouffons," and three movements of Gustav Holst's "St. Paul's Suite." The first four of these numbers will also be played at the Bradford concert...
...proletarian by birth is Soviet Director Coates. He was born in St. Petersburg, son of a Russianized British capitalist (woolen mills) and a half-Russian Englishwoman. He grew up in Russia, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov. Vaguely intending to become an electrical chemist, he studied in England under Sir Oliver Lodge. At 18 he returned to music. In 1914, aged 32, he became senior conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble...