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...stage several times. But even the smallest players had learned enough about music to read notes with a fair degree of accuracy, to beat good time when their turns came to climb up on a grown-up chair, bow vigorously, tap for attention and direct the others. Karl Moldrem, the man who , founded and patiently trained the New York Baby Orchestra, appeared on the stage to help the children tune their violins, to remind each of the young conductors that they were to wave their arms in three-four or four-four time. Beyond that he left them to their...
...Yorkers had ever seen anything like it, but in California where Karl Moldrem first became interested in training small children, babies' orchestras have sprung up like weeds. In California it is considered normal for mothers to have cinema ambitions for their children and Karl Moldrem's baby orchestras are calculated to develop stage presence, self-confidence. His first baby band, in Eureka, Calif., presented the difficulty of finding real string instruments small enough for the players. (Wind instruments are too difficult for children.) The Sherman-Thompson Co. had some 13-inch violins made abroad, some 42-inch...
...Hollywood Baby Orchestra, ablest of all, played 134 concerts in 1930, earned $130,000 for charity. Impressed by this record and by the chance baby orchestras offer for the wholesale manufacture of miniature instruments, Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. invited Karl Moldrem to bring the Hollywood orchestra to New York. When Moldrem discovered that child labor laws made it necessary to get the permission of every Governor through whose State the children would have to pass, he gave up the venture, decided it would be easier to start another group, one that he and Wurlitzer's hope will start an epidemic...
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