Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capitalist U. S. When the performance, an extraordinary second act of Carmen, was over, the Fine Arts officials beamed and congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within the reach of the masses. For in place of a cumbersome chorus and orchestra, Conductor Shavitch used sound-film. When the Toreador Song rang out powerfully, only 16 were singing it from the stage. In celluloid, the Moscow Grand Opera Chorus made them sound like...
...Utah, he started work as a cartoonist at the age of 18. Thereafter he studied youth in the college of experience and found it as dizzy, as dance mad, as genially addle-pated as Jack Oakie's charges are every Tuesday night to the music of Benny Goodman's orchestra...
Last season, the joint forces of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented John Sebastian Bach's magnificent St. Matthew Passion for the first time in these parts in several years. The results so pleased Dr. Koussevitzy that he determined to repeat the work this year in the ideal manner--that is on Good Friday. Thus, today is the date of the performance of the greatest of all Passion music, which is to be given at Symphony Hall in two parts: 4:30 p. m. and after an intermission...
With the same individuals taking part and again in collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, "Fair Harvard" as presented at the Tercentenary Celebration will also be recorded by R.C.A. at some rehearsal during the week. it is expected that these the week. It is expected that these recordings will be played at Alumni meetings throughout the nation...
...last word in Hollywood comic invention is a shot of Whalen attired in a donkey's head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...