Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Pierian Orchestra goes down to Poughkeepsie for a concert tomorrow night, it will break a long standing precedent as the first men's college orchestra to accompany the Vassar Glee Club...
Specific evils pointed to in the arrangements made by the 1937 Class Day Committee were failure to plan in advance for rain, which materialized, failure to notify guests in advance of the location of their reservations, failure to make the orchestra leader contracted for attend, and failure to provide an adequate amplifying system...
When, last week, middleaged, pince-nezed Nadia Boulanger stood up before the Boston Symphony Orchestra and raised a long, bony index finger, it was the first time in its 57-year history that the second oldest U. S. orchestra* had sounded off under feminine leadership...
...only occasionally before led an orchestra in public. What made her interesting to Boston music lovers was her reputation as one of the most famous composition teachers of her generation. In Paris (where she heads the Ecole Normale de Musique's composition department) and in Fontainebleau (where she has long been associated with the American Conservatory), Mile Boulanger, at one time or another, has had nearly half of the better-known younger U. S. composers at her feet. Main purpose of her present Boston visit is not conducting but teaching. The news that she was to lecture...
...Oldest major U. S. orchestras are: New York Philharmonic (now the Philharmonic-Symphony), founded 1842; Boston Symphony (1881); Chicago Symphony (1891); Cincinnati Symphony (1895); Philadelphia Orchestra...