Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week excitable youngsters at the University of Michigan believed their campus was the scene of the first U. S. suicide encouraged by Composer Seress' dolorous dirge. After listening to Hal Kemp's orchestra play Gloomy Sunday over the radio, John Granville Williams, 24, moody graduate student in chemistry, hanged himself...
...Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski is coming to Symphony Hall on Tuesday evening for a single concert. The program includes four Bach transcriptions by Stokowski himself and three excerpts from Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung". The famous conductor has not been heard here for many years and is now commencing a nation-wide tour...
...Calloway and his Cotton Club orchestra will supply the music for the first Modern Arts Ball which will be given at the Copley-Plaza on Friday evening, April 17th. It is only part of the huge entertainment program which has been arranged however...
...Vincent Astor gave her a diamond brooch which once belonged to Empress Eugénie. For the Metropolitan Opera Guild Mrs. August Belmont presented a gold traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver vase; the orchestra, a plaque. Nothing seemed to please Bori more than when Manager Edward Johnson handed her a silver bowl filled with gladioli "from the great Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
When Philadelphia Orchestra subscribers take the trouble to peruse the roster of players, they come upon the name of Waldemar Giese listed eighth under the heading "Basses." Waldemar Giese has stood before them solemnly hugging his big bull fiddle for six years. Nevertheless, few would be able to identify this musician whose consuming ambition has been to exhibit his skill as a soloist. Last week, in Philadelphia's New Century Auditorium, Polish Waldemar Giese at last showed what he could...