Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the next concert of its Cambridge series tomorrow in Sanders Theatre. The concert will start at 8 o'clock...
...Last week one of proud Toscanini's concerts with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra was attended by proud Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony, who went backstage to congratulate Toscanini during intermission. The Italian is nearsighted. He peered blankly at his famed Polish visitor, who said...
...give only one concert this year. The situation really is that in place of its usual series of two concerts in Symphony Hall for men's voices and a soloist, there will be only one concert in the series this year, and that will be for mixed voices and orchestra. The Glee Club will appear in many concerts besides this as usual, in schools, and public concerts in and out of Cambridge. The so-called single concert in Symphony Hall is the result of a new policy by which the Glee Club is advancing from the field...
...Mandolin Club has planned to present Brahms' "Waltz in A Major"; "Frasquita", by Franz Lehar; and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore". The pieces offered by the Banjo Club will be the "Veritas March", by Densmore, and a medley of the various college football songs. The Gold Coast Orchestra will play the "Russian Fantasy", arranged by Lange, and "Why Was I Born?" by Jerome Kern...
...orchestra, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, has been practicing steadily during the fall in anticipation of the winter season, and it has planned three special pieces for its opening program. The first will be Handel's Overture to the Ode for Saint Cecelia's Day, for strings and obees, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B. minor, for strings and flutes: Rondean, Sarabande Bource I, Bource II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Radinaric. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from...