Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mlle, Boulanger will be the guest of honor at the Friday and Saturday concerts of the Boston Symphony this week, as she conducts the "Requiem" of Gabriel Faure and plays the organ part in Saint-Saens' C minor Symphony. In the performance of the "Requiem," the Orchestra will be assisted by the Bach Cantata Club and the following soloists: Gisela Peyron, soprano; Hugues Cuenod, tenor; and Doda Conrad, baritone...
...represent ideas and personages. Events, motives, characters, situations are all identified by characteristic musical phrases. Their appearance in the music tells the listener what the protagonists are thinking about, what they intend to do, where they came from, what their destiny is. To the inexperienced operagoer, Wagner's orchestra merely sounds; but to the seasoned Wagnerite it talks. Of Der Ring des Niebelungen, cautious Manhattan Critic Lawrence Gilman recently wrote: "Not only the hugest thing that was ever attempted by the creative will; it is also, in the ultimate sense of the word, the greatest...
Noble Sisson and his colored orchestra will play at the Deacons' winter formal dance on Friday, February 18. A buffet supper will be served at 1 o'clock, with dancing scheduled from 10 to 3 o'clock...
Arthur Rodzinski will present a concert in Symphony Hall this evening with the Cleveland Orchestra. Under its present leader, who is now in his fifth year in this position, the orchestra has acquired an increased fame as one of the finest in the country...
Also included on the program are Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel," a Shostakovich Symphony (Op. 10), and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, arranged for orchestra by Leo Weiner...