Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm Holmes will conduct the Wellesley College Orchestra in a concert at Paine Hall tonight. The program consists of rarely played music dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and opens with Studentenmusik Suite No. 2 by Johann Rosemuller (1620-1634). Also to be heard are Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor; Gluck's Sinfonia to the ballet-pantomime, "Don Juan"; Bach's Cantata No. 202, "Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten"; Two Instrumental Pieces by King Henry VIII; and Gretry's Overture to "Le Rival Confident." The music is certainly unusually interesting and gives further proof...
...their twenty-sixth revival, the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present "Thorns and Orange Blossoms", a melodrama, at 8 o'clock Friday and Saturday nights, March 12 and 13. The Friday performance will be followed by a formal dance with Frank McGinley and his orchestra playing until 2:30 o'clock, while there will be informal dancing till 12 o'clock on Saturday...
There will be plenty of Huntting for Rabbits on Saturday, as Craig and his orchestra blow the horns from 5 to 8 o'clock for a supper dance in the Leverett House Dining all before the Yale hockey game...
Many who heard the world premiere of Lazare Saminsky's Pueblo, a Moon Epic last week agreed that his "orchestral rhapsody'' fell short of the billing. Composer Saminsky had written it for Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, on a special commission from the League of Composers. He divided it into two parts: "Sick of the Snow, the Shia Seed'' and "Call of the Wind; Highward Ho." Into these movements he worked tribal tunes, war cries, corn & moon dances of Indians in the Southwest. Listeners enjoyed its orchestral color and primitive drummings, but disliked...
...moaning an expurgated version of "Minnie the Moocher" while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing as a gesture of loyalty to an orchestra conductor (Henry Stephenson). Miss Moore favors the sound track with Schubert's Serenade...