Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monkeys. When an orchestra, attempting to tabulate animalian reactions to music, played in the monkey gallery at the Philadelphia Zoo last week, the little brown persons were bewildered and enchanted. As the instruments were tuned, the merry apes danced in their cages and cocked their ears. When the drummer tapped his drum, mandrill and marmoset cowered and wept with an uncontrollable fear. As the violins swept up in the frail music of a waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered...
Elephant. When the same orchestra played outside the house of a twelve-year-old elephant named Poetre, she listened with polite and melancholy attention. As the wild oboes wailed, she bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone...
Harvardian Orchestra to Play...
...complete Harvardian orchestra playing under the direction of Roy Lamson '29, will give a varied program of popular music and classical adaptations on Sunday evening, October 2. This concert will inaugurate the Sunday evening entertainments which the graduate secretaries of the Union plan for every Sunday during the coming year. It has long been a custom of the Union management to give the men a special steak dinner on Sunday evening. Nearly 400 men come and it is the purpose of the Sunday entertainments to furnish a pleasant hour immediately after supper. These entertainments will combine music with moving pictures...
...York Symphony Conductors. Guest conductors of the New York Symphony Orchestra were announced: Fritz Busch (Dresden Opera House), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit Symphony), Walter Damrosch (onetime regular conductor), Maurice Ravel (French composer), Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Madrid Symphony...