Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slaton), 22, has never been nearer a jungle than the isthmus at Catalina Island, where parts of Hurricane were filmed. She is a 5 ft. 5 in., 117-lb., healthy, heavy-lipped New Orleans girl who won a beauty contest, went to Chicago, sang with Herbie Kay's orchestra on a "celebrity night" program, married...
...starless cast of the Salzburg Guild included: pretty Soprano Margarethe Menzel, 24, who once played the piano in a Viennese ladies' orchestra; pretty Contralto Hertha Glatz, 27, who has sung with the San Francisco Symphony; pretty Coloratura Soprano Marisa Merlo. so flip on the stage that audiences might not guess that she once nearly got herself to a nunnery; roly-poly Basso Alfred Hollander, once of the able German Theatre in Brunn, Czechoslovakia; Baritone Leo Weith, who sang the title role in the world premiere of Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer; Tenor Franco Perulli, onetime protege of Tenor Tito Schipa...
...market two years ago by Inventor Laurens Hammond, which produces organ-like sounds- and many others-by electrical vibrations (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week the American Federation of Musicians, ever vigilant where mechanical music encroaches upon musicians' jobs, stepped in with an order that an orchestra of at least four men must be employed wherever a Hammond is played...
...Star Wagon, by Maxwell Anderson (who improvises on his own Hammond, and whose sons discovered that its electrical impulses can produce a sound like a blow-out), was not affected, since the Empire Theatre already has a small orchestra. But Many Mansions, which opened last fortnight, felt the full weight of the union's hand. Besides paying a Hammondist $200 a week, its management had to hire three musicians at union scale ($100 a week for the leader. $75 for others). Since no one wanted them to play, the three last week watched the show every night, prepared...
...Hammond on tour, he will play Bach and Handel organ music, as well as arrangements of piano and orchestral compositions, in 52 U. S. cities. An organ debutant with the Chicago Symphony nine years ago, when he was 20, Germani is now official organist of Rome's Augusteo Orchestra. As Benito Mussolini's favorite musician, he played at the wedding of Daughter Edda and Count Galeazzo Ciano...