Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dinner of the Bohemians of Chicago, a musicians' club, to Frederick Stock on his 25th anniversary as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...Manhattan last week alert listeners at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert noticed that in the Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and strength. They had previously speculated about a strange black cabinet which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin...
...shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
...phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn't allowed to play in the orchestra either...
...12?Dinner of the Bohemians of Chicago, a musicians' club, to Frederick Stock on his 25th anniversary as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...