Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before the coffee, the orchestra struck up "The Sidewalks of New York." Governor Smith jumped to his feet. "Stop that," he yelled to the orchestra leader. "Wait a minute. Have you the music for 'The Bowery'?. . . Never mind. I'll sing a verse and you fellows [bowing to Messrs. Root, Hughes and the others] join in on the chorus." They did. Governor Smith's voice boomed forth in one of the stanzas...
...Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli-Curci." (TIME, Nov. 15). Declared Walter Damrosch: "If I continue broadcasting one orchestra for two years only, I shall have played and talked to more people than I did in my entire 42 years as opera and orchestra conductor.... I will guarantee to revolutionize the musical tastes of the American people...
...ranked among the greatest conductor. Arturo Toscanini, (La Scala, Milan) unrivaled in ability to make an orchestra "sound"; Willem Mengelberg, (N. Y. Philharmonic) famed for the passionate warmth of his music; Paul Felix Weingartner, (Vienna) who loves the "classica"; Karl Muck, (Hamburg) noted for his tone coloring; Frederick Stock, who has made the Chicago Orchestra one of the three best in the world; Leopold Stokowski, (Philadelphia Symphony) the "virtuoso" among conductors: these men are widely considered to outrank...
Stopping in eight southern and northwestern cities, the musicians will be entertained at private dances in every stopping place. The Gold Coast Orchestra will supply the music for all the tea dances, as well as the evening affairs at Indianapolis, Chieago, and Buffalo...
Later on during the year, the large group of Freshmen will be divided according to their dormitories, and they will practice in these groups for their final competition Dr. Davison also plans that each dormitory shall have an orchestra to accompany the singing. A cup goes to the hall with the winning chorus at the Jubilee, and a baton is the prize for its leader...