Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...
...view of the fact that performances by the Pierian Sodality at Harvard are very infrequent, it is unfortunate that the orchestra was not up to form in its concert last Wednesday evening. The Pierian is rally a much better group than it appeared to be in this concert, and it is too bad that its only impression this year (except for a concert with the Radcliffe orchestra and chorus in the Fall, and its recent Pops Concert at Adams House) should not be a good one. It is even more regrettable that this orchestra, which plays programs outstanding in originality...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I and Brahms: Tragic Overture (B. B. C. Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: 10 sides...
England's finest orchestra and the world's most famous conductor produce two top-notch performances...
Liszt: Concerto No. 2 in A Major for Piano and Orchestra (London Philharmonic, Leslie Reward conducting, with Egon Petri; Columbia: 6 sides...