Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boats some of the most beautiful girls in town, to wit: "the eight dancing debutantes," who came directly to Boston from a year at the Hollywood in New York. Coley Worth's Orchestra with Hal Cutler, a fast moving review and a delightfully intimate atmosphere explainwhy the Blue Room has always been a favorite nocturnal rendezvous for Harvard...
...three months this winter a thin. baggy-eyed Russian, considered by many to be one of the greatest of contemporary composers, will tour the U. S. For a fortnight in January he will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, for another fortnight the Cleveland Orchestra. Contracts are pending whereby Igor Stravinsky may also appear with the bis symphony orchestras on the Pacific Coast. He will play the piano in joint recitals with Samuel Dushkin. the self-effacing violinist who is devoting his career to Stravinsky's music. Last week Stravinsky's autobiography was published...
...times attains so high a pitch of intensity that the "props" are of no importance whatsoever. More important as an obstacle to total absorption in the theme are the constant and lengthy breaks between scenes--and there are twelve of them--during which a shrill W. P. A. orchestra performs wretchedly. This reviewer, for one, would infinitely prefer complete silence and an undisturbed opportunity to develop the progression of thoughts induced by the previous scenes...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, is to conduct an augmented orchestra of 125 WPA musicians in the Opera House on Sunday evening. The program consists of Weber's Overture to "Euryanthe", Brahms's first Symphony, Loeffler's "Pagan Poem" with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, as soloist, Romheld's Minuet, and the "Sailors' Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Gliere. While the concert may not have the technical finish of some of those given by our established orchestra, it does nevertheless merit attention...
...content with the inanitities of the one as parried by the harshness of the other. For recruits from the other come in troops. There are Jack Benny and Bob (Bazooka) Burns, Martha Ray and Benny Fields, and Leopold Stokowski doing some extraordinary things with his hands, which his orchestra turns into music...