Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building, Mme Gaveau, shouted furious protests from...
...Jaynes (Betty Jane Schultz) stayed abed much of the week, kept silent a full day previous to her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company as tuberculous Mimi in La Boheme. So ably did she sing that she won 21 curtain calls, unanimous praise from Chicago critics, brought the orchestra cheering to its feet, two pleading cinemagents to hers...
...youngster began her singing lessons only two years ago, never heard an opera until this season. Said Betty Jaynes after reading her notices: ''Now I shall not go to school any more. I shall just sing and sing and sing." Preparing to join the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth Vandenberg, pretty, blonde daughter of Michigan's Republican Senator, gave a piano recital before Manhattan's Beethoven Association...
...comedies, a pair of jugglers, and an orchestra and chorus will all be featured when Adams House holds its annual Christmas Dinner this evening...
Between the committee, the "Mad Monocyclists," John C. Develin '88 and Henry S. Stone '88, will combine juggling and serobsites on their one wheeled vehicles. Selections by the orchestra and the chorus of is voices will close the program...