Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of House representatives. The Rabbit men, believing that an agreement had been reached whereby each was to have only one dance during the football season, cancelled plans for a second dance the night after the Army game, and decided to take a loss of some $150, since the orchestra had already been signed...
...Company still retains its place as the foremost ballet group in the world. The productions are exceedingly satisfying both to the eye and ear, and the orchestra which accompanies the dancers is not the least part of their success. The opportunity offered by this visit is one to take advantage of--for this is an art which is best appreciated by itself without the encumbrance of opera...
...sympathy and taste that the audience stormed applause, the gentle critics went home to praise unreservedly an outstanding young wonder, Julius ("Buddy") Katchen, II. Prodigy Katchen had been "discovered" by Conductor Eugene Ormandy (who himself made his debut at 7), had been given a preliminary hearing before the Philadelphia Orchestra Club, recently organized to stimulate youthful interest in the city's music...
...short that sometimes two movements are played on one ten-inch side, the Boyce works are melodious, inventive, contrapuntally ingenious. They were conducted by Mr. Waldman's part-time associate, Max Goberman, onetime pupil of Leopold Auer, onetime violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, at present assistant concertmaster in Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Messrs. Waldman and Goberman declare that their firm, which will issue an old and a new work every month (first new one: two octets by Dmitri Shostakovich), will put profits, if any, into the making of more & better discs...
Muzak music comes from specially made master transcriptions with an audiocycle range far greater than most radios and minus the surface scratching of most phonographs. This makes the reproduction so faithful that hearers can barely distinguish it from an actual performance of an orchestra. Another advantage is complete lack of announcements, commercial or otherwise, to impede its comfortably spaced flow of tunes. Service is 24 hours a day and all subscribers receive a printed program. Network service costing $25 a month is now taken by such Manhattan spots as the Waldorf-Astoria and Childs restaurants and comes in two types...