Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor, made its debut as a permanent organization, gave an excellent first program, surprised critics of last year...
...usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, Walter Damrosch himself, Maurice Ravel, coming from France, and Enrique Fernandez Arbós of the Madrid Symphony...
...Philharmonic Orchestra, with its second program, fitted an exquisite bit into its season's mosaic. Mme. Wanda Landowska was soloist, played to Josef Willem Mengelberg's accompaniment the Mazort Concerto in E flat, the Finale of his Harpsichord Concerto in D. Critics sat enthralled, spent their dearest words, said nothing worthy of so unique an artist...
...Society of the Friends of Music, Arthur Bodanzky conducting the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, announced Beethoven's Misso Solemnis for its first concert, Oct. 30, promised nine others for alternate Sunday afternoons, beginning...
...York Philharmonic is the third oldest orchestra in the world, witness to the comparative youth of the modern orchestra. The London Philharmonic is the oldest, the Vienna second...