Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the town of Gary, Ind., celebrated "Witwer Day." The newspapers had editorials and there was a concert. In the concert a girl sang to the sound of an orchestra. The girl's name was Kathryn Witwer, she was the daughter of a Gary, Ind., mechanic, she had won a young girl's singing contest, she had sung from the stage of the Chicago Opera Company, her voice had been mildly praised by competent critics, she wanted to go abroad and study music but she had no money. This last fact accounted for the existence of Witwer...
Forty-three years ago people sat at tables and drank their beer while listening for the first time thus informally to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The experiment proved so successful that the concerts acquired the name of "Pops" and thrived. Tonight, just as forty-three years ago, people group themselves around tables and listen to the orchestra--only tonight soft drinks will take the place of the beer of years gone...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will present its annual spring concert at Jordan Hall, Boston. Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. This concert, which is the final appearance of the orchestra during the current season, is the highlight of the organization's year...
Nicholas Slonimsky, who assisted in conducting the concert last year, will lead the orchestra on Tuesday evening. Rosita Escaloua, a pianist of no small ability, has been secured as assisting soloist...
Efforts are being made to secure the services of Bert Lowe's orchestra and the Harvardians to furnish continuous music. The dancing will go on inside Smith Halls Common Room in the quadrangle where a wooden platform will be built...