Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Talking Machine Co. last week offered $40,000 in prizes for musical compositions by U. S. citizens. It will pay $25,000 for the piece most suitable to be played by a symphony orchestra, $10,000 and $5,000 for the best and second best piece suitable for performance by a dance orchestra...
...good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Friedrich Wilhelm August Stock. Rhenish composer, conductor of the Chicago Symphony...
Engaged. Genevieve Carpenter, daughter of famed composer John Alden Carpenter ("Skyscraper Ballet"), to J. Elliot Cabot, Boston scion. When Miss Carpenter made her début in 1922 at a musicale in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Pianist Rubenstein played the program...
Patronesses for the Senior Spread were announced last night by Hamilton Heard '28, chairman of the Class Day Committee. Gene Rodemich and his orchestra will play at the Spread, which takes place on June 18, the night before Class...
...addition to Rodemich's orchestra, there will be one other which has not as yet been selected. These two orchestras are to provide music for dancing in Memorial Hall and outside on the Delta west of the Hall, where a canvas will be spread if the weather permits of outside dancing...