Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greasy nondescripts whose entrance prompts Mr. Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty." This group becomes embroiled with a wrestling bear which seems more human than any of them except Mr. Healy. Later the wrestlers try a fearsome barber-shop ballad to the accompaniment of Mr. Healy's orchestra. These scenes are blunt, vulgar, hilarious. A plump-cheeked brunette, Betsy Rees, might well be given more time...
Local unions determine the number of men to constitute a theatre orchestra according to the size and type of the house. The cost of maintaining even so small an ensemble as 15 men at the average wage of $60 per week is $46,800 a year, exclusive of a conductor. The cost of installing a sound apparatus, according to the latest figures from Radio Corp. of America, is from $13,500 to $15,500 for a house seating 2,500 to 3,500; $9.000 for a theatre with a capacity of 750 to 1,250. Even plus the price...
Where are the musicians to go? Three years ago it was practically impossible for a symphony manager to persuade a good man to change his job. Today there are 20 applications for every vacancy. Except for the Boston Symphony, every orchestra is unionized. Each organization employs approximately 100 men. The minimum wage scale runs from $90 weekly (NewYork Philharmonic-Symphony) to $60. The cost of subsidizing a symphony orchestra is staggering. Guarantors must be prepared to spend from $100,000 to $200,000 yearly. Under such circumstances, new symphony orchestras have not been and are unlikely to be springing...
...Pops Concert tonight in Symphony Hall, Alfredo Casella will conduct the orchestra of 80 Symphony Players in the following program: March from "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Aase's Death c. Anitra's Dance King's Grotto d. In the Troll Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier "Pacific 2-3-4," Symphonicment Move Honegger "Italia," Rhapsody Casella Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Infermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Maseagnt Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...Pops Concert tonight in Symphony Hall, Alfredo Casella will conduct the orchestra of 80 Symphony Players in the following program: Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Overture to "La Forza del Destino" Verdi Largo from the "New World" Symphony Dvonak Ouerture Solennelle, "1812" Tehaikovsky Prelude to "Carment" Bizet' Molly on the Shore Grainger Liebestraum Liszt Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt...