Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert orchestra consisting of about 12 men chosen from the Pierian Sodality is being organized by Jacob Moscovitz '30. The new orchestra, known as the Harvard Chamber Ensemble, will be conducted by Nicholas Slonimisky, the present conductor of the Pierian orchestra...
...Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first hailed as a giant, then was his monument erected in the public square. Now, 50 years later, musical people find him increasingly...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra. Serge Koussevitzky conducting, will give a concert in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening. The program will include Bach's Branden-burg Concerts No. 4 in g major for violin, two flutes and string orchestra, Mozart, Symphony in C major, No. 41 "Jupiter"; Debussy, Nocturnes; Satire-Gymnopedies (Orchestrated by Debussey); Ravel, "La Valse" and "Choreo graphic Poem...
...pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young...
Following the concert, there will be dancing with the Gold Coast Orchestra furnishing the music...