Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Backstage they adored her?the younger singers, the chorus, the stage hands, the musicians in the orchestra, the ushers. She brought glamour to the humdrum of rehearsals. Her escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room...
...Detroit, last week, Baritone John Charles Thomas arrived late for a rehearsal with the Detroit Symphony. The orchestra, busy under Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, would not stop immediately to go over the part of the program it was to share with Baritone Thomas, saw instead its star soloist stride angrily from the hall. This, explained Manager Jefferson B. Webb, was the reason for the last-minute substitution of Tenor Richard Crooks...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Richard Burgin, guest conductor, in its concert tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre will have as its violin soloist. Albert Spalding...
There will be dancing with music by the Gold Coast Orchestra after the concerts at Buffalo, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Augusta, Pinchurst, and possibly Nashville. The local Harvard Clubs are sponsoring the performances in all but Nashville, Augusta and Pinchurst, the concert at St. Louis being under the joint auspices of the Harvard and Yale Clubs of that city...
...better showing was made earlier in the week by Emerson Whithorne, onetime (1907-09) husband of Conductor Leginska, whose New York Days and Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...