Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These words, sung to the taut accompaniment of a studio orchestra, emerged last Sunday night from such U. S. radios as were tuned in on Columbia Broadcasting System's "Workshop of the Air" (producer of Archibald MacLeish's radio play in verse, Fall of the City, Stephen Vincent Benét's Paid Revere). The Captain who expected people to bow down was, it appeared, a Fascist, for his "Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found...
College has always been as necessary to Hal Kemp, North Carolina '26, as a pair of rubbers to an elderly professor of Greek. An Alabaman nearing his 33rd year, he organized his first dance orchestra at the University of North Carolina about 15 years ago. That band would play anywhere for $32.50 an evening. Skinnay Ennis, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams were in that band. It won a college dance-orchestra contest sponsored by a vaudeville circuit, played before the Prince of Wales in England as a prize, and from then on it was "varsity...
President Zapf and wife, a plain, smiling German couple, went to last week's Rochester Congress by bus, took charge of various receptions, joined the rehearsals under Rochester Dirigent Hubert Stiens. The orchestra contained 50 zithers gathered from all over the U. S., three violins, one 'cello, seven mandolins, eight guitars, one flute, one bass viol. A spat nearly spoiled a rehearsal when Soloist Maximillian Veith, a lithographic demonstrator with a Hitler mustache, became piqued at Dirigent Stiens, commanded the orchestra: "When I am in your city I play as I wish. Now you must follow...
...York Philharmonic Symphony. Mr. Marrow and the same 35 turned up in The Bronx Concourse Plaza last fortnight as the New Court Symphony. But ten players had to be jettisoned at once when it appeared that the grand ballroom would not be grand enough to hold the full orchestra and the audience which it was expected would fill the 1,200-odd seats at $1 a head...
Next day there arrived 50 Ib. of caviar, 200 Ib. of lobster, 10,000 fish balls, 12,000 tea sandwiches, 100 boxes of cigars, 6.000 packages of cigarets. That afternoon none other than Sergei Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra mounted a temporary dais, tuned up while into the clattery room for cocktails and canapés crammed some 4,000 men & women attending the 63rd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In a din so constant that Maestro Koussevitzky once threw up his hands and stamped off the stage, the orchestra proceeded to play...