Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief of the 1936-37 concerts, it was made known, will be those of October 23 and 24 when Lizst's "Faust Symphony" will be rendered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a singing of the "Saint Matthew Passion" with the Boston outfit in March...
...well-to-do independent oil producer, Alf Landon belonged to Phi Gamma Delta at University of Kansas in 1904-08. Fraternity records show that he got the ice cream course eliminated from the house menu, tried and failed to have only one orchestra instead of two hired for the spring lawn party, outlawed gambling in the chapter house, opposed motions to install a stein rack and to discontinue "Dr. Wilbur's Bible lessons." No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor. No "Christer," he downed his beer with other members of Theta Nu Epsilon, oldtime campus drinking...
...lobby, glad to pay for some guide to its meaning. The second act spoke more eloquently for itself. Scene was the village square on the day of the marriage ceremonies. All the ghetto rabble was there, begging for alms, food, drink. One gay interlude came when a ragged peasant orchestra evoked a reedy little tune from the big band in the pit. Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept in to whirl despairingly with a groveling hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom...
...success with the Wagner Ring cycle last year (TIME, Nov. 4), the San Francisco Opera Association made plans months ago to repeat it next season, again engaged Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, tried to get Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who had performed wonders with its ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner, who proved himself...
...Reeves and his band will supply the music for the festivities. This orchestra has played at the Havana Country Club, on the Lido, and has recently completed a successful cruise on the French Line...