Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the funeral car advanced 200 heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern stomachs easily withstood the motion. As the procession passed, both French and native troops lined the way, saluted the funeral car, and kept the multitude of mourners back...
Likewise, the Teutonic love of music has endured the war, and persists in innumberable festivals, and still more noticeably in the breast of one of the fallen mighty. Prince Joachim Albrecht, composer and orchestra conductor, has followed Count Keyserling and Herr Ludwig across the sea, and has stirred up rather more of a storm than his predecessors. Unless his much-discussed concert materializes. America will miss a first-hand view of royalty, and the coiners of clever generalities on racial characteristics will lose a perfectly good example...
...Indian fantasy" Dance Selections Gold Coast Orchestra arr by C. F. Henderson...
...millennial society which is even funnier than the Knights of the Green Forest; Mr. Miller is its cunning and listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers and prancers of whom one, name unspecified, brandishes her mahogany limbs with incredibly vicious abandon...
...Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, trained by Professor A. T. Davison '06, will join forces with the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra in the production of Arthur Honegger's famous work. This will mark the first appearance in Boston of an opera oratorio which has been so successful in the musical centres as to create a demand for this contemporary choral music...