Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bostonians Abroad. From Boston came news that, during May and June 1930. on official invitation, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra will tour Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland. Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland...
...summer capital of U. S. opera, rustic Ravinia Park just north of Chicago, opened for business last week. The Ravinia season lasts ten and one-half weeks, until Labor Day. Conductors this year will be Louis Hasselmans, Gennaro Papi, Eric DeLamarter. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be in the pit for every performance. Onetime Actor Edwin Strawbridge will head the ballet...
Harvard University Charles Francis Adams LL.D. Frank Billings Kellogg LL.D. Sergei Koussevitzky, orchestra conductor (Boston Symphony) LL.D. Robert Russa Moton, college principal (Tuskegee Institute) A.M. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer D.Sc...
...film, so that the "emoting" of cinema's musical accompaniments is more exactly timed and appropriate than ever. Now that the talkies have come, more than 35,000 musicians who used to play in theatres are out of their jobs (TIME, May 27 et seq.). The orchestra of Loew's big New York Theatre, for example, was dismissed last fortnight...
...three years past, the assistant organist of that orchestra had been one Helen Jean Moyer, 29. Last week she kept looking for another job, but found none. She went to her drab abode and sat by the window, despondent. She thought about suicide. The "talkies" have come, but Organist Moyer heard no knock on her own door. She waited awhile and then jumped, twelve stories down to death. The movies, the talkies, real life-they are quite different...