Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mile, Boulanger will also give a course at Wellesley, but it has not yet been determined whether Harvard students will be admitted there as well. She will set another precedent this winter when she will be the first woman to conduct a major symphony orchestra in America...
...concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniole Amfi-theatrof, will be given in Sanders Theater tonight at 8 o'clock. The program will include: Rossini, Overture to "Semiramide"; Boccherini, Suite for Strings; Dukas, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"; Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A major...
Danicle Amfitheatrof will appear as guest conductor this evening in Sanders Theater as the Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to its home city. He will lead the orchestra again on Friday and Saturday, and will make another appearance in the shorter series the following Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon. For all concerts the program will be the same except that tonight Dukas's "L'Apprenti Sorcier" will replace the "American Panorama...
...musical impressionist like Debussy, Paul Dukas and Jacques Ibert, Ravel worked with combinations of tone as impressionist painters did with blurred combinations of color, got nebulous and exotic effects from his orchestra. He was an eclectic, often deliberately imitated the idioms of exotic or historic peoples, dishing them up in his own particular French sauce. Thus his opera L'Heure Espagnole and his descriptive orchestral works Bolero, Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodic Espagnole are built up of Spanish idioms; his La Valse has a Viennese, his Le Tombeau de Couperin an early 18th-Century flavor. A movement...
...dapper, long-nosed, quick-moving little Ravel visited the U. S. to conduct some of his own compositions with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony and other U. S. orchestras. Shy, almost hysterically affable as a conductor, he seemed continuously surprised and pleased that his music sounded so well. Once he lost his place in the middle of his own La Valse and had to be pulled through by the orchestra...