Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...
...noted Finnish composer whose Origin of Fire, played in the U. S. for the first time early in 1938 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is (1 Werner Janssen, 2 Robert Kajanus, 3 Richard Strauss, 4 Jean Sibelius, 5 Eugene Ormandy...
Freshmen will dance to the music of Don Gahan and his orchestra tonight in the lower common rooms of the Union from 9 until 1 o'clock. The dance is sponsored by the Union Committee...
Played for the first time this week by the Boston Symphony, the "Requiem" has been conducted abroad by Mlle. Boulanger at the concerts of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London last November, and in the autumn previous. She is peculiarly fitted to interpret this work, since at the Paris Conservatory she was a pupil under Faure. Dr. Koussevitzky will lead the orchestra while Mile, Boulanger plays the organ...
...quite so skillful in the actual mechanics of conducting as she is brilliant in her verbal explanations of the effects she desires. Consequently there is a slight feeling of insecurity among the undergraduate singers which would probably not be felt by the members of a professional orchestra...