Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italian by birth, international in reputation, Mr. Casella has appeared in practically every musical center of the world in all of his multiple roles. His first visit to the United States during the season 1921-22 was perhaps the outstanding musical event of the year. The Philadelphia Orchestra first presented him as a soloist and conductor in his "Pagine di Guerra." With the Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cincinnati Orchestras he conducted his "Rhapsody Italia" and also appeared as pianist. His debut recital in New York aroused such interest that two others were hastily arranged, making three recitals within one month...
During 1922-23 Mr. Casella's triumphs as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and conductor, continued. He played the Mozart D Minor Concerto with the Boston Symphony and his own arrangement of Albeniz's "Spanish Rhapsody" with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Then for a time he absented himself from the American musical scene, devoting all of his energies to writing and composing...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...
Chicagoans named Jiskra, Charbulak, Recoschewitz, Pytlowski, Napolilli, Masacek, Trnka and so on were slightly aghast last week at their own temerity. They, performers in Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, had asked for higher salaries, $100 per week for regulars, $75 per week for extras and substitutes. They had been getting, respectively, $80 and $55. But, unlike the musicians of the Chicago Civic Opera (TIME, April 11), they had not obtained their demands. The patrons and managers of fine music in the city of wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James...
Thirty-three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Arthur Fiedler, Conductor, will give a concert in the Museum of Fine Arts, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The entire museum will be open from 7 until 11 o'clock, and no admission will be charged...