Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Helena Woolworth McCann, wife of Manhattan Lawyer Charles E. F. McCann and eldest daughter of the late 5?-&-10? store magnate, Frank Winfield Woolworth; after short illness; in Manhattan. A director of F. W. Woolworth Co., she helped support the Metropolitan Opera Company, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, three years ago gave to her three children more than...
Leading roles will be sung by David P. McAllester '38 and John H. Eric 1G. The production will be in costume with a ballet group, and will be accompanied by harpsichordist Claude Chiasson and a small string orchestra and chorus...
Last week Musician-Prince Frederik gave way to an old passion, strode to the stage of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House during a rehearsal, conducted the orchestra through the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony and the Overture to Wagner's Meistersinger...
Since Bach's time the organ has grown out of all knowledge. Modern organs, used in cinema palaces as well as in churches, can reproduce the sound of an entire orchestra, can imitate anything from a train whistle to cathedral chimes. By pulling and pushing little buttons, modern organists can produce tremulous vox humana, whooshing swell-effects, can make their gigantic instruments do everything but prance up & down the aisles. Some organists love to put a modern organ through its tricks; others sigh for the good old days when an organ was just an organ, point nostalgically...
Last week Mexico's No. 1 musician, wiry, dynamic Carlos Chavez, entered NBC's Studio 8-H to conduct the first of two Saturday night broadcasts. First to follow famed Maestro Toscanini at the head of NBC's new $600,000-a-year radio orchestra, Conductor Chavez drew a studio audience in which the mink coats and white ties of previous broadcasts were conspicuously absent. Programmed were two of Conductor Chavez' own compositions: the energetic, Stravinsky-influenced Sinfonia de Antigona; and the Sinfonia India, in which Composer Chavez uses several authentic Mexican Indian themes...