Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week saw U. S. symphonies definitely launched on a new season, saw conductors back from Europe with new music and sharpened batons, saw stormy rehearsals and brilliant first nights. Many bridges had been crossed since last spring. Orchestras had been left leaderless, some penniless. Deficits had been threateningly announced; in a few dire cases, cleared. New leaders had been imported, borrowed. The situation...
...Angeles, Georg Schneevoigt stepped into the post left vacant by the death of Walter Henry Rothwell for his first concert, Oct. 27. A Finn, 53, he has an enviable European reputation, is known in the U. S. only for a short guest appearance with the Boston Symphony...
...that his imagination might not be blurred, his initiative eventually retarded" he left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...York University, also, they sacrificed their little ones in the arena. Against the hungry Rutgers horde 125-lb. Harry Hormel played left halfback, scored thrice, risked constant annihilation as his team annihilated Rutgers...
...Harvard were to play Notre Dame or Minnesota, she would be beaten by a score of 40 to 0," stated W. D. Baker, left end of the Indiana team, to a CRIMSON reporter after Saturday's game. Another Indiana player who was standing next to Baker as they were dressing in the Soldiers Field Locker Building concurred in this opinion...