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Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...
Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...
...putting the little known Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on the radio in a Pittsburgh Plate Glass half hour. The program, scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, will be broadcast over a 40-station NBC hookup. An added civic note is supplied by the fact that the orchestra leader, Antonio Modarelli, is a native Pittsburgher...
...Club, Bettis Field Airport, the Pittsburgh Symphony under Antonio Modarelli gave its first open air popular concert, drew such a crowd that its executive board met impromptu, immediately announced a second...
...High Longnecker, T. M. '30 Back 21 158 5.7 Delta High Marsters, A. K. '30 Back 21 182 5.9 Exeter McCall, W. T. '32 Back 20 170 5.8 Muskegon High McDonough, B. J. '30 Back 22 167 5.7 Lake Forest McInnes, M. G. '30 End 24 182 5.9 Dean Modarelli, W. H. '32 Tackle 20 186 6.2 Union Hill Morton, W. H. '32 Back 20 168 5.11 New Rochelle Nims, C. S. '31 Guard 20 190 6.1 Greenfield High O'Connor, E. J. '31 End 22 186 5.11 Hebron Pettingill, G. '32 Guard 19 179 5.9 Pekin School Phinney...