Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lure" men away from other symphony orchestras; that was not necessary, nor would such procedure have been in keeping with our policy [TIME, April 25]. The facts are: after it was announced we were augmenting the NBC Orchestra to full symphonic strength, we received more than 700 applications from instrumentalists. . . . From this number we selected the very finest artists who were free of other contractual obligations. In no sense did we "raid" other symphony orchestras...
Neither are we "hungrily on the hunt" for brass and wood wind players. It is not true that we recently sought to entice three men away from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The three artists mentioned in your article voluntarily applied to us for employment. Based upon their assurance that they were free to negotiate, contracts were signed...
TIME did not say that NBC 'enticed" Hornist Berv, Contrabassist Torello and Trombonist Gusikoff, merely stated that Philadelphia Orchestra's Manager Alfred Reginald Allen had "caught [them] ... in the act of reaching for NBC contracts...
...born conductor has ever been conceded a place at the top of his profession ; and few have ever rated a job as chief of even a second-rate U. S. symphony orchestra. A rare exception is the Kansas City Philharmonic's Karl Krueger, who last week completed a tour of Italy as guest maestro with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fuzzy-headed, cigar-puffing Krueger, who during the past four years has put Kansas City, Mo., on the symphonic map, was born in Atchison, Kans...
...Harvard Night at the Pops. The program will be divided into three parts, with a guest conductor for each group of pieces. First visiting maestro will be Ernest Hoffmann '18, who has proved his ability to many Cambridge music lovers in his former conducting of the State Symphony Orchestra. He will present a march by Strube called "Harvard Cruiser." This will be followed by von Weber's Overture to "Oberon," with Three German Dances by Mozart and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony bringing the group to a close...