Word: networker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, five years after Rachmaninoff's death, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the U.S. its first chance to hear Rachmaninoff's First, on the first U.S. symphony network program ever televised (see RADIO). After 50 years, its discords no longer sounded devilish, but neither did they sound heavenly. The First had little of the lush lyricism of his later works; it sounded more like Tchaikovsky's Festival Overture, "1812"-without the cannon...
...Said Marshall: "The hour is far more fateful now than it was a year ago. By intimidation, fraud and terror, Communist regimes have been imposed upon Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Totalitarian control has been tightened in other countries of Eastern Europe, and these states have been linked together in a network of alliances. Other European peoples face a similar threat...
Reached last night, Gerald Y. Genn '48, president of the Harvard network, stated that the new group was organized primarily "for business purposes." The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, from which all the Ivy League members have resigned, Genn continued, "wasn't getting enough national advertising to make joining worthwhile...
Genn explained that the policies of the Ivy League Network, which will restrict membership to the present group for an "indefinite time," will rest with an executive board of ten members, two from each of the stations. The chairmanship will change hands each year, beginning with Dartmouth and continuing in alphabetical order. WHRV representatives will be Genn and Mark S. Carroll '50, special events director for the station...
Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, asserted last night that radio had "capitulated to greed" by turning over to advertisers network time formerly devoted to music. Hanson opened the Louis C. Elson Memorial Music Lectures at Paine Hall...