Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestras for the occasion have been decided on and will be Kemp's and the Harvardians. The Harvardians are well known in Cambridge and played at the Junior Dance. Al Kemp and his orchestra have played mainly in North Carolina and this last winter toured the Loew's circuit and played for four months in one of the well known New York night clubs. They are making the trip from New York specially for the Jubilee...
Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
...Pops concerts, made famous through their 41 years of performances, have their official opening tonight in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock under the direction of the new conductor, Alfredo Casella. Their program tonight will be: Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Two Marches Schubert Arranged for orchestra by Casella First performance in America "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Wagner Overture to "Cinderella" Rossini Three Dances from "Othella" Verdi "Italia" Rhapeody Casella Indian War Dance Skitton Valse Triste Stbelius Caprice on Spanish Themes Rimsky-Korsakov
Such composers as Schubert, Wagner, Rossini and Verdi appear on tonight's program, which opens with the Prelude to "Carmen" and concludes with the "Caprice on Spanish Themes" by Rimsky-Korsakov. Two of Schubert's marches, arranged for an orchestra by Mr. Casella, will be played for the first time in America. The conductor's own Italian Rhapsody also appears in the list of numbers...
...Pops date back to the summer of 1885 when the Boston Symphony Orchestra was only four years old. There was then started the project of a supplementary series of concerts of popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...