Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another brother, Federico, the youngest, is a symphony orchestra conductor and composer (Paul Gauguin...
...Boston's hoary monuments to Brahmin gentility, that still stands like the Great Pyramid, is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At its Friday afternoon concerts in venerable Symphony Hall, bald, spade-bearded oldsters and their classically corseted wives sit complacently, laved in the patrician strains of Beethoven and Brahms. So have they sat every week since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson, in 1881, materialized the expensive idea that Boston ought to have a good symphony orchestra. That idea cost Major Higginson a million dollars...
Higginson's Band. The fame of Henry Lee Higginson's orchestra has not been limited to Boston. Long before the Philadelphia Orchestra was heard of, connoisseurs rated the Boston Symphony the finest organization of its kind in the U.S., some said in the world. Although it has been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck...
There followed a six-year interlude of trouble. Aging Major Higginson, disgusted with the hue & cry over innocent, crotchety Dr. Muck, turned the orchestra's management over to a board of directors, died a year later. Many of the orchestra's best players had been deported as "enemy aliens." In turn, two more acceptable but less capable French conductors, Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, strove vainly to regain the lost ground. A strike, supported by the American Federation of Musicians, though won by the management, further depleted the orchestra's ranks. But by 1924 the Boston Symphony...
...Harvard band will play a new Cornell medley arranged by Leroy Anderson '29, and before the game will render "Pack Up Your Troubles--." Duffy stated that the latter tune was not to be considered symbolic. Don Gahan, popular local orchestra leader, who is a third-year law school man, will lead the Crimson music...