Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to previous announcement, the Sanders concert is not the final program of the year. On Monday, May 17, the Glee Club will join with the Boston Pops Orchestra in three selections and will also present independent numbers, in celebration of Harvard Night at the Pops...
...born in Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player in the city orchestra. In his early years he was known as a piano virtuoso. At twenty he was slim, stooped, with fair hair and flashing blue eyes; among strangers he acted as shy, as embarrassed, as deferential as Charles Butterworth. His musical idols were Bach and Beethoven, and his weighty style bore traces of both...
...State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh universities. No recluse, he served in Pittsburgh on an NRA regional labor board, a special committee to arbitrate a streetcar strike, a Governor's commission on special policing in industry, a federation of social agencies, a housing association. For fun he leads an orchestra composed of his three sons and two daughters, plays tennis with his sons and baseball with the NLRB employes team, digs in his garden...
...Donahue in person and his 14-piece Rainbow Room Orchestra will be the feature of the annual Freshman Jubilee on Friday, May 28. With three vocalists to lend the extra touch. Al will swing from 10 to 3 o'clock for the Class...
...flabby, sad-eyed man played his Sonata for Viola Alone, his curious indifference to tonal qualities. Later they had a chance to hear Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher (The Organgrinder) which had never been played in the U. S. before. Der Schwanendreher is a concerto for viola and small orchestra, based on traditional German folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys into a whole astonishing movement. Bassoon, clarinet, oboe, horn and solo viola made an intricate, lovely fugue out of The Little Bird on the Fence. Critics considered the concerto "work-manlike," "resourceful," "poetic...