Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petrillo's union, was no actor. But five months ago, when he began to act as master of ceremonies as well as fiddle at Harlem's Regent Theater, the vaudeville union socked him $50 for a card. Fiddler Norman also paid, but Petrillo called out the orchestra and closed the act. Said Petrillo: "I am being mercenary . . . We are going to get back that...
...Manhattan's Plaza hotel. There, Pianist Victor Borge, a member of both Petrillo's union and A.G.V.A., has been burlesquing opera-singing and making fun of music in general. Petrillo was not amused. He sent Borge a terse telegram: leave the A.G.V.A., or play without an orchestra. Borge meekly complied. Said he: "It is easier for me to get along without the A.G.V.A. than to do without an orchestra...
Charles Munch made his debut as permanent conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this weekend, and effectively demolished the illusions of certain musical cynics who held Koussevitzky and the B. S. O. synonomous, and claimed neither could exist without the other...
...opening concert was almost more a tribute to the Orchestra than it was to Munch. It proved beyond question that the Boston Symphony Orchestra lies gleaming in its case like a fine musical instrument, ready to sing in the hands of any great virtuoso. It passes from Koussevitzky to Munch, each with a technique of his own; yet the latent quality of the instrument remains unchanged...
...plain talk, this means the 110-odd men of the Orchestra have been able to shake off 25 years of routine in a little over three weeks, and adapt themselves to a new and different-regime. This was especially evident in the excerpts from Schubert's "Rosamunde," which was played with a gentleness and simplicity seldom heard under Koussevitzky. Even the standard Beethoven's "Fifth" sounded almost like a first performance...