Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local tobacco warehouse, we moved to the Rocky Mount Ballpark (pictured but not mentioned in your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
...teachers were only casual acquaintances in Europe, and they had not met in the U.S. until they happened together in the basement of Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...
...Martin & Lewis nightclub act is a far smoother vehicle than the one they started rolling in Atlantic City, but it is still built along the same lines. It would be even better with tightening. The boys kid the orchestra, imitate each other, pour water on people's cigars, whisper secrets, shout non sequiturs at the mike, fight for its possession, spoil each other's jokes, order the customers to laugh, discuss them cattily when they don't-and altogether are apt to ramble on for two hours or more without a break. "We know...
...final Graduation Week activity for which a ticket needed is the informal dance on the evening of June 22. Admission is $2.40; Ruby Newman and his orchestra will play. The Third, Sixth, and Tenth reuniting classes will also be present at this dance...
Most of the University's star performers came on stage during the evening. Malcolm H. Holmes '28 led the orchestra through a series of overtures and encores. Then G. Wallace Woodworth '24 appeared with Karl Kohn '48 to play Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra. Kohn is without a doubt one of the finest musicians in the University, and anyone who didn't appreciate his talent before Monday night certainly recognized it after his composed and accurate performance...