Word: orchestramen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choral society engaged him as conductor. When his father died suddenly, young Walter, a little dazed, assumed all his responsibilities. Railroad accommodations were poor and a hazardous blizzard was raging but under Walter Damrosch the Metropolitan played its scheduled engagement in Chicago. Later in Boston he pacified angry orchestramen who threatened to strike because their passage back to Manhattan was booked on the Fall River steamship line...
...five performances and sailed home on the Ile de France. The tour had grossed $1,000,000. Enthusiasm had run high. But Company Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used because he wanted his borshch and pirozhki prepared by his own Russian cook...
...Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...
...rehearsals the orchestramen worked as they had not worked since the little Maestro left them last spring. They played Salome's Dance brilliantly enough to suit most conscientious conductors. But Arturo Toscanini interrupted time & again. He pleaded with them to remember that Salome was "a very passionate woman," attempted to illustrate by undulating his negligible hips...
...shaken out of bed, would never sing in San Francisco again. Sembrich was frightened, too. But she stayed to give a concert, earned over $10,000 which she divided between the choristers and the orchestra players who lost their instruments. When Sembrich sang her farewell three years later the orchestramen, remembering her generosity, gave her a silver loving...