Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full tones, was no less impressed by his physical resource. Planting his feet widely, chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece had never been heard in the U. S. and on the whole proved an unhappy choice. Critic W. J. Henderson...
...Baltimore banker, Adolph B. Hirschmann, he studied economics at Johns Hopkins, left at 17, took up music with Peabody Institute instructors. At 20 he got a job as office boy in L. Bamberger & Co.'s department store, Newark. There he helped build radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts for three years, was appointed sales and publicity director at 23. Six years later he took the same post with Lord & Taylor's store, planned their crisp black and white advertisements, recommended more truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME...
...Radcliffe Choral Society and The Radcliffe College Orchestra, assisted by the Harvard Orchestra, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, assisted by Malcolm Holmes will give a varied program of instrumental and vocal selections tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Living Room of Agassiz House. Seats are reserved for ticket holders only until 8:05 o'clock after which the doors are opened to the public. Such old favorites as the Irish Folk Song "Follow me down to Carlow", Jerusalem", Pergolesi's "Glory to God in the Highest" will be sung...
TREMONT PLAZA-- A danceable swing orchestra is conducted by Ben Pullo. Soothing vocals by Rita Coughlan. $1.00 minimum...
Radcliffe's Choral Society under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, and the Radcliffe Orchestra assisted by members of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will give a series of two concerts tonight and tomorrow in Agassiz House at 8:00 o'clock. Today's concert is open to the general public while on Friday only students of Radcliffe and Harvard will be admitted Tickets may be ordered through the manager of the Harvard Orchestra. Admission is free. The program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven The Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras...