Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances by a 65-piece symphony orchestra...
...skating rinks, theatres, a waxworks museum, learned English when he played for nothing at the old Union Square Theatre. He was still a boy when he met Violinist John Douglas, the talented son of a Negro slave who had studied at the Paris Conservatory but could not get an orchestra position because of his race. Douglas was eking out a living with his guitar, gave young Mannes free violin lessons...
...Mannes was playing a solo between the acts at the Herman's Theatre. Conductor Walter Damrosch called him to his box, signed him up as a first violin with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Damrosch's sister Clara was singing with the Oratorio Society when Mannes met her. In 1898 Mannes became concertmaster of the Symphony, married Clara Damrosch the same year...
Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Athenian conductor, is for the second season the mid-winter guest conductor of the Boston Symphony, and will lead the orchestra in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening as well as the concerts of Friday, Saturday, and Monday in Boston. He will be remembered for the excellent impression which he made last year and for his unusual methods of conducting which include some extraordinary vertical manoeveurs...
Three works by modern Italian composers are also to be played: a "Prelude Glocosco" by Castagnone, Respighi's Toccata for Piano and Orchestra in which Mr. Mitropoulos will be the soloist, and the Second Suite from Alfredo Casella's opera, "La Donna Serpente...