Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange and unfamiliar to Stokowski must have seemed the Academy of Music two days later as he walked through its sombre emptiness to the stage. Strange and unfamiliar must he have appeared to his orchestra-members, in his brown baggy golf clothes instead of his usual impeccable black. For it was no rehearsal, even though the hushed silence which greeted him was only that of tiers upon tiers of vacant seats. Then with strains of Bach and Mozart he gave a program unique for him, his first before a microphone and unseen listeners, his first to be paid...
Other major U. S. orchestras, so classified on the basis of schedules, budgets and excellence, begin their seasons soon. They are, with their conductors, the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky; the Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra...
...Manhattan this winter may be heard also the new Manhattan Symphony, under Conductor Henry Hadley; the Conductorless Orchestra; and the Friends of Music which will have for the first time its own orchestra under Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who will devote to it his full time...