Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be two more concerts: one at the Connecticut College for Women. New London, Connecticut; and the other at Wellesley where the Sodality will be assisted by the Wellesley Orchestra and Choir...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct the orchestra in the following program: Gluck Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Hindemith Funf Stucke Rosetti Symphony in G-Minor Delancy Adagio (for violin and strings) George K. Mateyo--Soloist DeFalla Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve...
...Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra will supply the music for the First Modern Arts Ball which will be given this evening at the Copley-Plaza Hotel...
...Florentine musician in the court of the Duke of Mantua named Claudio Monteverde produced one of the first real operas. This work, "L'Orfeo", was revolutionary in character for it employed a wide varsity of musical forms as well as utilising what was then an unusually large orchestra. From this opera, two orchestral interludes titled Sinfonie and Ritornelli are to be played by the Symphony, providing an excellent seventeenth century balance for the rest of the program...
Igor Stravinsky, a present-day Russian composer who has been inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov, dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its fiftieth anniversary a work entitled Symphony of Psalms. This is to be performed again at this week's concerts with the Cecilia Society as the chorus. As a text, Stravinsky has taken three of the Psalms and scored them for orchestra (without violins and violas) and mixed chorus; there are three movements, the second of which is in the form of a fugue. Here as always, Stravinsky's vigorous rhythms are very much present and give the work...