Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strict symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor...
...desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared as an off-the-record speaker at a luncheon of the National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight in his dark apartment in what was formerly the Arlington Hotel-where...
...conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fourth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tomorrow evening a night o'clock. The concert opens with Tchatkovsky's Overture-Fantasia, "Romeo and Juliet," composed rather early in the great Russian's life and at the suggestion of his friend and follow musician Balakirev. It portrays the struggle between the two families with its tragic outcome, and uses different tonalities to express the various episodes in the story. Also on the various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in D minor...
Cast in this play as Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Mr. Lawson not only looks like the great musician but acts very much as Wagner must have acted during his extraordinary life. Yet the effect of his impersonation of the great German composer is definitely hammy...
...play opens and closes in 1858. Its title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck (Leo G. Carroll) at Zurich. With Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores...