Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major Freshman social activity of the year will be run by Peter E. Pratt, Chairman, with a supporting body composed as follows: Patronesses and Ushers, Hamilton H. Wood; Head Usher, Bartow Kelley; Advertising and Finance, Walter H. Ridder; Refreshment Committee, Edmund S. Childs, Jr., John B. Lloyd; Orchestra, George O. Clark, Jr., Mason Fernald, Vinton Freedley, Jr., George S. Olive, Jr.; also Paul H. Bowdle, Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., Lloyd Mills, Jr., and Richard E. Webster...
...polls conducted in 1936 and 1937 by the National Institute of Social Dancing, representing 1,200 dancing academical in the United States, Hal Kemp's orchestra was voted tops. The standing of the bands in the latest poll was as follows...
...first two recitals will be held with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the selections being sung coming from the "Faust" symphony of Liszt. The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be the scene of the first appearance Friday, and on Saturday afternoon they will sing at Carnegie Hall...
...conduct the Syracuse (N. Y.) Symphony. Even then he was full of plans for blending "canned" music with living singers. Benjamin Adler, a Manhattan cotton broker, backed him when in 1933 he put on Carmen in New York. In that production Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel sang against an orchestra & chorus which were recorded on discs, not film. Last summer when he was touring Russia, Shavitch persuaded the Fine Arts Commissariat to give his device a further hearing...
Elektra is a difficult opera in which to make a debut. It is doubly hard on the concert stage, without costumes, scenery or action, with the orchestra playing full tilt on the platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...