Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...takes at least 70 musicians to make a symphony orchestra, and they must be as carefully fitted as the parts of a machine. A symphony orchestra in good running order has from 28 to 34 violinists, from twelve to 14 viola players, from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable...
...figure (average salary: about $80 a week). Most strenuous bidding frequently takes place over first-class oboists and horn players. Fiddlers are the symphonic world's plentiful proletariat. But fine horn players are rarer than fine conductors, and often make a bigger difference to the sound of an orchestra...
Employing Radcliffe girls in their many female singing and dancing parts and even in the orchestra, the Lowell House Musical Society will give Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" under the direction of Courtlandt canby, Conductor and Alan Downer, Dramatic Director, at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell Dining Hall...
These musical comedy stars will be supplemented by a group of vaudeville players that include a tap dance team, comedy team, roller skating artists, and an orchestra. Several baseball stars and sports writers will be asked to appear in order to insure a full three hours of entertainment. Motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game may be added to the program...