Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist in a small school orchestra. He was the round-shouldered fellow teaching in his father's parish school to dodge military service. He was the awkward, pasty-faced composer drifting about the city with never enough money to buy his own music paper...
...first time since the war a New York Orchestra has been engaged to play at the Junior Dance. On the evening of March 2, Memorial Hall will echo to the harmonies supplied by Markels Society Orchestra...
...members of the Dance Committee spent several days in New York interviewing well-known orchestra leaders. Among those treated with were Roger Wolfe Kahn, Don Voorhees, Ben Bernie and others, but after thoroughly weighing the respective advantages it was decided to engage Markels...
Gade's assistants will be C. M. Under hill '31, Henry Schniewind '31 and A. C. Ingraham '31; these men will be in charge of the Vocal Club, the Orchestra, and the Specialty Acts division respectively...
Trials for three divisions of the Freshman Instrumental Clubs will be held at the beginning of next week, it was announced last night. The Glee Club, Orchestra and Specialty Acts divisions trials will be held in Gore Hall Common Room next Monday evening at 7 o'clock. Announcements concerning the trials for the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs will be posted shortly in the Freshman dormitories...