Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual large supply of doeith young women, will offer some really good bands. Red Nichols is there now...The Roseland State right around the corner, will continue to bring in big names. But their poster advertising is so poor that one finds out about Glenn Miller's orchestra not earlier than two days after it is gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music rather than Ruby Newman . . . At this writing, the Little Harlem...
Since March, Arch Oboler has been writing, casting, directing, dabbling with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Stravinsky's 28-year-old epic about the lovelorn clown, still tops in modern ballet scores, gets its first complete (and a brilliant) recording...
Musicians may choose from among the Glee Club; Harvard's famous band; the Instrumental Clubs, which annually stage a variety show; and the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University's symphony orchestra...
...friends, soft-spoken Dorothy Maynor wangled a chance to sing for Koussevitzky. When her big, velvety voice swung out in a brace of difficult Lieder, ceremonious Koussevitzky threw up his hands, cried: "A native Flagstad!" Next day, at a private picnic given by Koussevitzky to the members of the orchestra and a few hand-picked critics and musicians, Soprano Maynor, perfectly poised, warbled faultless coloratura, crooned deep Lieder, went to town on a Wagnerian Ho-yo-to-ho. The gilt-edged professional audience marveled at her versatility and easy form, found her rich voice one of the finest...