Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia last week went plump Paul Whiteman with 27 picked instrumentalists, vocalists, arrangers and composers, to give two joint concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a curtain raiser to that organization's summer season in Robin Hood Dell. Because the Philadelphia musicians play on a cooperative basis, never knowing what their salaries will be, Conductor Whiteman donated most of his men's services, asking only expenses and $1,500 for crack Arranger Adolph Deutsch. During rehearsals Whiteman perspired through a green shirt, puffed a long cigar. Violinist Arthur Lipkin, chairman of the Dell concerts, went through an anti...
...orchestra, the Essex County Symphony, completed its second week of concerts under Erno Rapée in a stadium near Newark, N. J. Audiences discovered that no longer need they suffer from New Jersey's mosquitoes, thanks to a new larvicide with which the air was sprayed...
...these but 1,500 other adepts of fretted instruments gathered last week in Minneapolis for the 35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo Band, which was to render a new arrangement of Ravel's famed Bolero...
Conventioneers were promised prizes for the largest orchestra, the orchestra which had traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program...
...famed conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra who retired at the close of the past season is (1 Dimitri Mitropoulos, 2 Arturo Toscamni, 3 Sergei Koussevitzky, 4 Eugene Ormandy, 5 Leopold Stokowski...