Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House military aides-a score of handsome bachelors who gave a dinner party beforehand on the Presidential yacht Potomac, and were each instructed to squire a girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over backwards...
Last month, when Philadelphia Composer Harl McDonald announced the first performance of a composition for women's chorus and orchestra commemorating the Lindbergh kidnapping, Philadelphians were apprehensive...
Last week Philadelphia socialites took their apprehensions to the Academy of Music to hear Composer McDonald's new opus, entitled Lament for the Stolen. As the Philadelphia Orchestra and a black-&-blue clad chorus of 216 swung out under Eugene Ormandy's baton, listeners jumped and groped for their program notes. There they were partially reassured by reading: "The whole chorus, unaccompanied, announces fear and shock in a series of neoprimitive wails, punctuated by a shriek- the orchestra is agitated, and ... the soprano section speaks the words 'This is a terrible thing to be done...
Braced as they were for Composer McDonald's shocker, the audience found the neoprimitive chorus and agitated orchestra less terrible than they had anticipated. Aside from a screech or two, Composer McDonald had concocted his score with ingredients that recalled the work of several old masters. Press pundits, long critical of McDonald's lack of originality, loudly assured their readers that the title of his work, Lament for the Stolen, did not refer to McDonald's familiar-sounding themes and harmonies...
Richard Strauss: Symphonic Domestica (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Composer Strauss' at his most realistic, depicts the pleasures, worries and bickerings of his own family circle, manages even to reproduce the gurgle of the drain in the family bathtub. Judged as music pure & simple, it is one of his finest scores, given its first (and a brilliant) recording...