Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell has accepted an invitation to speak at the Smoker, and music is to be furnished by the Harvardians, the orchestra which will play during the intermission at the Junior Dance on next Friday night. It has also been arranged to serve doughnuts, cider and sandwiches as well as to distribute favors which will be furnished by Arthur...
...Pittsburgh ministers left no churchman dubious, about the spirit that was in them when, last fortnight, they evoked a Pittsburgh Sunday-closing law dating from 1794 and protested loudly to their city's "safety director" that two Sunday concerts, planned by the newly-formed Pittsburgh civic symphony orchestra, would constitute that horrid thing, "a menace to public morals...
Pittsburgh's "safety director," one James M. Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been...
...Henderson '28 and R. M. Whitemore '30 will give piano selections, followed by two numbers by the Mandolin Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra playing two popular pieces. "Moonlight on the Ganges" and "Climbing up the Ladder of Love," and as a more serious conclusion Meditation from "Thais" arranged by John W. Green '28, should provide a high light in the evening's program...
Resides the talk by President Lowell and the two moving pictures, music will be provided by the Harvardians, not by the Gold Coast Orchestra as previously announced. Doughnuts, elder and sandwiches will be served and favors will be given by Arthur...