Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such composers as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov; such artists as Kreisler, Lilli Lehmann, Paderewski; that Damrosch, first of the important conductors, took stock of jazz and siphoned it off for the seriously musical to take or leave as they would; that Damrosch first took his orchestra on the road, to cities and towns which knew no music; that it was Damrosch who 20 years ago inaugurated symphony concerts for children...
...make music history. Again pioneer, he begins this week a series of radio concerts for school children. In preparation some 100,000 classrooms have had radios installed and on Friday morning children all over the U. S. will listen for the first time to a new National Symphony Orchestra of 60 players (many of them members of the old New York Symphony) and hear Damrosch lecture on the great composers, their music and the instruments that make...
...planned -for third and fourth grades, fifth and sixth, seventh and junior high schools, high schools and colleges. Teachers will cooperate in the classrooms, supervise tests sent out in advance by the Radio Corporation of America, illustrate the talks with pictures of the composers and the instruments in the orchestra. Soon, if this first radio instruction proves successful, Big Teacher Damrosch will have 12,000,000 pupils. In a decade or two the honest historian should be able to point to a nationwide appreciation of music commensurate with the country's resources. The Damrosch programs...
Just a Minute. There are no lengths to which musical comedy maestros will not venture in the effort to achieve a novelty. In this one, for example, the orchestra is made up of women; the idea would have been a good one if the women could have been taught to play properly. The plot is about a chorine who resists luxurious temptations and achieves fame without undue frivolity...
Late comers are double warned that though the ourtain rises at two-thirty, they will not be delayed in the lobby, but led, or rather driven to their seats. They will miss the short overture during which the orchestra will tune up, and the chorus make their last steps. They may also miss the introduction of the principals, who will gamble for the chance of kicking off. Artists rejoice to die, especially for a crowd. The feature this afternoon will be one of the best drilled male choruses in the country. It is the greatest assembly of stars ever perpetrated...