Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierian Sodality Orchestra plays its annual Boston concert tonight in Jordan Hall at 8.15 o'clock...
...Stanton '27 will conduct the orchestra, which will number about 40, in all of its selections except the one which Mr. Slonimsky is leading...
...Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes a long time to play could be recorded and probably sold. Hence the "in-a-nut-shell...
...also an experimenter, a personality to the few. This winter he permitted his private feelings more rein and the audience knew him for its own man. Of no one was there more good talk in musical Manhattan than of the tall, concentrated, sparse-haired primate of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He gave them Brahm's "Requiem" last week, as personal a thing as ever a German wrote. "Behold, all flesh is grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of the field," sang the Choral Symphony Society and Soprano Elizabeth Rethberg and Baritone Fraser Gange. "Behold...
Last week the Philharmonic Society of New York, angling for conductors for its orchestra, made the prize catch of the year. The directors announced that they had engaged Arturo Toscanini, world-famed Director of La Scala in Milan, as a regular conductor; he will lead the Philharmonic symphony in 41 concerts next season. Conductor Toscanini, slim, volatile, once successfully defied Il Duce; he is considered the world's finest leader of orchestras...