Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music for the fun of it was the keynote of the Instrumental Clubs as they began to recruit members in Phillips Brooks House last night. The Vocal Club, the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Specialty division, whose plans for this year include a Christmas trip, will have another evening of trials tonight...
Much good material was discovered at the Pierian Sodality tryouts last week In all 28 men were accepted, which with 32 returning men already registered will give the orchestra a total membership of at least 60 players, including 22 violins, three violas, seven 'cellos, three basses, five flutes, two oboes, five clarinets, four trumpets, three horns, three trombones, two tubas, and two percussion...
Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes and the managerial staff have spent the last week trying to find extra parts to the music and extra stands for the players in anticipation of a large crowd. The Radcliffe Orchestra has promised to come in full force, and other musicians ranging from students in the Shady Hill School to an alumnus of the Class of 1888, have been invited...
Work will begin immediately on Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", which is scheduled definitely for performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the spring. Not since 1927 has the Glee Club presented this composition, (this was on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death), nor had it been presented for many years prior to that...
...Opera in St. Petersburg, left his native land after the revolution to become U. S. accompanist to a number of second-string opera singers. For seven years, Kostelanetz has been a radio conductor, has had his name linked frequently with that of Soprano Lily Pons since he led the orchestra in her first two pictures (I Dream Too Much, That Girl From Paris). Commuting last year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles, earned from four appreciative airlines a silver mug and the title of No. 1 air traveler in the land (TIME...