Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, took a vacation. To pinch hit for Maestro Koussevitzky the orchestra's board of directors picked an obscure, lean, bald-headed Greek named Dimitri Mitropoulos. Boston's Brahmins, who thought all Greeks ran lunch wagons, had never heard of Conductor Mitropoulos. At the way he bounded to his place on the stage and went into action, they turned pale with alarm...
...attempt, however, has been made to suggest the kind of music that would have accompanied the production in the fifth-century. It was written by Leonard Bernstein '39 who not only directs the chorus but also has organized and directs the orchestra accompanying the play...
...with them across the footlights, let them wriggle, whistle, cheer, shout, sing, throw paper darts. Once, when they dared him to, he brought down the wrath of Philadelphia's Tories by playing the Internationale. Stokowski's Youth Concerts became the most jam-packed events of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season. Optimistic highbrows felt that a sizable percentage of Philadelphia's jitterbugs had been saved for Beethoven...
...Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
Founded by England's famous dandy and fashion arbiter, Richard ("Beau") Nash, the Pump Room Orchestra (now conducted by handsome Maurice Miles) has given concerts in Bath's Pump Room for 234 uninterrupted years. Last week word leaked out that the famous Pump Room Orchestra was to be disbanded. Reason: for its size, Bath's orchestra had set a new record in box-office flops. This year's expected deficit...