Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual Brattle Hall Concert to be given by the Pierian Sodality on December 14, Carmela Ippolito, violinist, will assist. The orchestra, consisting of 40 men, will play under the baton of Nicolas Slonimsky, its new conductor. The orchestra has already given two concerts and will give its third in Lowell on December 11 before the Brattle Hall Concert...
...concerts have already been presented by the orchestra in Boston, but the Lowell expedition will be the first trip of the season for the musicians. The performance in Brattle Hall is an annual event and will be followed by dancing, the music being supplied by the Harvard Troubadours, made up of members of the Sodality...
...Slommsky, the new conductor o the Orchestra, studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory. During the Russian Revolution he went to France where he continued his tudies. There he met Serge Koussevitsky, now conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and through his agency came to this country to teach in the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York. At present be is conducting the Boston Chamber Orchestra and accompanying visiting artists on the piano...
...small orchestra, led by Roy Lawson '29 of the Harvardians, will play throughout the evening. It is probable that there will be several specialty acts...
...Rochester, last week, the Philharmonic Orchestra, under Dr. Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music, submitted to a large audience and a jury of six, four manuscript orchestral works of U. S. composers. Pageant of P. T. Barnum by Douglas Moore and Darker America by William Grant Still (Negro) were chosen for publication...