Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company of dolls will take the boards in Boston tonight to enact the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its busiest, Jonah and the Whale at the height of their disagreement with one another, willow trees which go democratic and grow bananas, and stories of Chinese mandarins and their lovely, distressed daughters...
...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will open its season of nine Thursday evening concerts in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight. Conductor Serge Koussevitsky will repeat the program given at his opening concert in Symphony Hall last Friday evening...
This program will open with Berlioz' "Overture to 'Benvenuto Cellini'", and will continue with Brahms' "Symphony No. 3" and Debussy's "'Iberia': 'Images' for Orchestra No. 2", concluding with Stravinsky's "Orchestral Suite from the Ballet, 'Petrouchka...
...program permitted, the orchestra confirmed its every virtue as a band of these nineteen-twenties made in the conductor's image. That is to say, it is an essentially ultra-modern orchestra, in which each choir sharpens its characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...