Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conductor Nikolai Sokolov of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, his wife (nee Marix) has said proudly: "Before he was twelve, my husband played in the orchestras of several Russian vaudeville companies that were better than the Chauve Souris." True to this honest origin, Mr. Sokolov is described as "playing poker?either stud or draw?when the boys come in for a game on a Saturday night, peel off their coats . . . and Mrs. Sokolov puts the coffee on to perk and fixes up a snack...
Therefore Manhattanites were prepared for almost anything when the Cleveland Orchestra, still in its precocious youth, sat down on the stage of Carnegie Hall last week, for its eighth annual Manhattan concert, and burst, with groaning wood and trumpeting brass, into the first program ever offered by a U. S. symphony of first rank on which appeared three native compositions...
Turn about is fair play. Manhattan newspapers last week invited professional musicians to write criticisms of a Bach, Mozart and Brahms program, rendered on three pianos and with the assistance of a student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...
...come during the week of March 22 to 29 when they sing the famous Beethoven mass, Missasolemnis" in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society at Symphony Hall. These two performances will be the Glee Club's contribution to the Beethoven festival held under the auspices of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Association that week...
...preparation for the mass the Glee Club has been doing choral work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the latter under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24. The organizations, consisting of over 500 members, meet every Monday night in Paine Hall for joint rehearsals. In the middle of Marsh 300 of these signers will be chosen to sing during the festival, in the two performances, on the Symphony Hall stage...