Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
...Because students naturally are not paid union wages, no admission can be charged. To meet the present $60,000 budget, young Manhattan socialites gladly do office work, solicit contributions, sell memberships at prices ranging from $1 to $5,000. Of the 130 young men and women who comprise the orchestra, many are on scholarships, pay as little as $1 a year tuition, and especially needy students receive money for rent and clothing. Conductor of the association is tall, slim Violist Leon Barzin (TIME, July 31, 1933), 37, who gathers the students thrice weekly in Carnegie Hall Chamber Music room...
Members of the University Orchestra, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Radcliffe College Orchestra will give a joint concert in Agassiz House, Radcliffe College this evening at 8:30 o'clock...
...Sheraton Room. Johnnie Long's Orchestra. Cover $1.50 week nights. Dancing 9:00-1:00. Dinner Dance in the Ballroom Saturday night. Dinner $3.00, no cover until after...
Mickey Anton's Orchestra. Dancing nightly from 8:00-1:00 week nights and 8:00-12:00 Saturday night. No cover or minimum...