Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert. Mr. Howard Goding, soloist. Sanders Theatre...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its third concert in Cambridge in Sanders. Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Howard Goding, pianist, will be the soloist. Five more concerts, are to be given in Sanders Theatre this year, all of them on Thursday evening. Every concert is open to the public and single tickets may be obtained at Kent's Bookstore...
...next concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Cambridge will be given in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock Thursday evening of this week. The soloist for this occasion will be Mr. Howard Godding, pianist. This will be the third concert of the series given by the Orchestra in Sanders Theatre this year. The remaining five concerts will be held on Thursday evenings, January 17, February 21, March 21, April 4 and April...
President Samuel Harden Church of the Carnegie Institute is firmly in sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would...
This feeling of recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...