Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Motta of Switzerland addressed 150 celebrities at a dinner and the celebrities?including Mary Garden, the company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture...
Last week the National Broadcasting Co. (Manhattan) announced that Dr. Walter Damrosch, retired patriarch of Carnegie Hall and the New York Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Dec. 27), would, beginning in October, conduct 24 orchestral concerts before the National microphones, prefacing each performance with a talk on the composition of the evening and explanations about the "instruments in the band...
...Thomas Beecham (orchestra conductor, son of the late Beecham, pill manufacturer) walking in London, was oppressed by the heat, stripped off his fur-lined overcoat, hailed a taxi, put coat on seat, bade the driver follow slowly as he walked home...
...combination used is that of the full sized dance orchestra and all the classical selections have been rearranged and transcribed to fit this combination...
...Banjo and Glee Clubs and the Orchestra have arranged a program of eleven numbers, to which will be added specialty acts by E. C. Bitcliffe '30, De Witt Statten '30, E. D. Hanighen '30, and G. W. Eiseman '30. After the concert the Harvardians will play for dancing...