Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youthful Manager Alfred Reginald Allen, a shrewd peacemaker in Philadelphia since his appointment year ago, figures out the Orchestra's payroll which amounts to about $10,400 per week, exclusive of Stokowski's salary. Invaluable to the Orchestra is bald-headed Marshall ("Curley") Betz, who acts as librarian and general baggage master. Marshall Betz allied himself with the Philadelphia band the same day that Stokowski did 24 years ago, understands the conductor's and the players' moods. With the current tour Betz faced his stiffest undertaking. He is responsible for the many scores that...
With its head held high for the first time in years the San Francisco Symphony this week ends its season. There has been talk all over the city of the reborn orchestra. Ladies have been giving symphony luncheons, going on to the concerts, rhapsodizing over the performances under chunky little Pierre Monteux. Last week it became known that the French conductor had signed a contract for three more years in San Francisco. The announcement spelled good news. Critics pointed to what Monteux had accomplished with an orchestra that had been ragged and uninspired. Financially the new contract meant that...
Behind scenes congratulations went to genial one-armed Joseph S. Thompson, new president of the San Francisco Musical Association, and to plump go-getting Leonora Wood Armsby, founder of the Hillsborough summer concerts, who this winter has been the San Francisco orchestra's managing director. Last year when there was no regular season because of the lack of public support, the city voted $30,000 to give ten popular-priced concerts (TIME, May 13). But Mrs. Armsby and President Thompson (brother of Author Kathleen Morris), were determined to have an oldtime formal season besides, engaged Monteux and launched...
Fresh from yesterday's successful four hour performance, the Harvard Glee Club, 128 strong, will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra this afternoon and evening for its second presentation of Bach's renowned "St. Matthew Passion." Dr. Serge Koussevitzky will conduct...
...Structure it is a polyphonic composition, in which eight separate voices combine with the orchestra in simultaneous performance of varying melodic or rhythmic patterns. there are occasions on which the first and second sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses may be required to sing eight different melodies in simultaneous harmony with the instruments...