Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers often try to cut their teeth on symphonies, try writing musical epics before they have learned how to spell cat, musically speaking. An exception is Boston's softspoken, dark-eyed Walter Piston, who last week conducted the premiere of his First Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Like Composers Brahms and Bruckner, Composer Piston had bided his time until he was well into his forties...
President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System last week put his annual stockholders' report on the air- in direct competition with Kay Kyser's dance orchestra on NBC-and it delighted Columbia executives that Mr. Paley had a bad case of microphone fright. Hovering around him in his office at Columbia's Madison Avenue studios in Manhattan were two production men, two vice presidents, one engineer, two page boys. There were duplicate microphones in case one broke down, a precaution not usually taken with either Jack Benny or President Roosevelt...
...undertaken, Canby admits, but he hopes that Wednesday night's production will restore some of Lowell's musical prestige that has slipped away to Leverett, whose Glee Club collaborated with Wellesley in their production of "Alceste," last winter. Not that it's a strictly Lowell affair, for chorus and orchestra are packed with ringors...
...handled by John H. Eric '37, 1G, Charles DeL. Ashmore '38, David P. McAllester '38, and Robert C. Cochrane, Jr., '39. Recruited from the Radcliffe Choral Group, the feminine soloists will be Norma Nasmyth '39, Victoria Glaser '40, Barbara R. Miller '40, and Evelyn Stern '39. A small string orchestra has been drawn from several quarters...
...Senator Arthur Vandenberg, were surprised to hear of her marriage to Edward Pfeiffer, Trade Extension Bureau Manager of True Story Magazine. This was the second time in two weeks that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum...