Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's concert, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, called for little critical comment. It was a ceremonial affair. Glazounov, like most great composers, is an indifferent conductor. He had only a scratch orchestra at his command. Yet a great audience gathered to pay tribute, arose when he appeared, applauded continually. Similarly was he honored fortnight ago in Detroit. He will appear also in Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston...
When Nikolai Sokoloff conducts his Cleveland Orchestra in its annual Manhattan concert, he usually attracts attention by performing unusual music. In last week's concert Conductor Sokoloff seemed more than ever an apostle of the curious. Following Chabrier's Marche Joyenuse, he presented d'Indy's seldom-heard Jour d'Eté la Montagne, then three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner...
...forth on a rubber net. Their act is carried out with minute precision and is quite different from the ordinary acrobatic stunt. Arthur Martel offers his weekly organ solo, this time in the form of a musical boxing bout between the husbands and wives present and the concert orchestra contributes a dashing rendering of the "Rhapsody in Black and White". All in all the program is a well-balanced entertainment sure to please some of the audience all the time and all of the audience some of the time...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the Harvard Glee Club will sing in Symphony Hall. The Radcliffe Choral Society and 70 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will assist...
...Davison '06 and G. W. Woodworth '24 will conduct the concert. Dr. Davison will lead in a group of three songs by Handel, performed for the first time with orchestra in the United States; six "Liebeslieder" and "Neue Liebeslieder", by Brahms, to be sung by a special mixed chorus of 50; and "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach. Woodworth will direct "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs", by Vaughan Williams, and the "Hymn of Jesus", composed by Gustav Holst. The latter work is being given its first public performance in Boston...