Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Hudson's orchestra will play at the Lowell House Spring Dance, May 18, R. E. Lewis '40, chairman of the committee announced. The dance will be the customary costume party, music from 10 to 3 o'clock...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will close their current season as a joint organization tonight with the performance of the Brahms Requicm with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This program is the culmination of the year-long labors of hundreds of students, and it manages at the same time to be one of the major musical events of Boston, for the excellence of the undergraduate group has been fully recognized...
...dormitory room on the University of Minnesota campus with a studio couch, an upright piano and two trunks, he lived the life of a monk. When he did go out for an evening, it was not with Minneapolis' dowagers but with some fiddler or bassoonist from his own orchestra. A devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt and a medallion of the Virgin Mary in the lining of his coat, never ventured to conduct without them both. When he was not conducting or studying scores, he could usually be found in the gallery...
Minneapolitans grew proud and fond of their Maestro Mitropoulos, bought out every last seat of their huge Northrop Auditorium (capacity 4,800). The men in the orchestra followed their leader with a devotion bordering on worship. Visitors discovered that some of the most brilliant and spectacular U. S. conducting since the peak days of Stokowski and Toscanini was being done in snow-crusted Minneapolis. This year, with Mitropoulos' fame spreading to bigger cities, Minneapolis tied him securely with a three-year contract...
...little embarrassed by Mitropoulos' lack of dignity. But last week, as their symphony rounded out its season with an appeal for funds to balance the $250,000 annual budget, they thanked their stars for it. "Never mind my dignity," said Conductor Mitropoulos. "If necessary to continue the orchestra, I'll take the men to Seventh and Nicollet [heart of downtown Minneapolis] and play there and then pass...