Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging conversational hum. "Der iss an opera going on. It iss a good opera; you might like...
...opera was, in fact, going on-Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, best-seller of recent Metropolitan seasons, its cast headed in familiar top-notch style by Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad. Evident from the first drop of Mr. Bodanzky's baton was a greatly improved orchestra. Not so evident, but present nevertheless, was a brand new stage floor capable of supporting even a Wagnerian soprano without creaking. Last season's major Wagnerian discovery, svelte Swedish Kerstin Thorborg, again drew critical superlatives for her performance as the vacillating Brangane. Youthful American Julius Huehn again donned whiskers, impersonated...
Dancing was slow getting under way, as the orchestra played for forty-five minutes to an empty floor. At nine-fifteen an unidentified and determined couple launched proceedings with an original version of the Big Apple, and in five minutes the floor was jammed...
...setting of pine boughs and mistletoe, Johnny Allen's orchestra will play for the Deacons' Christmas dance tomorrow night from 9 to 2 o'clock...
...exaggeration magnificent. Although the second movement leaves one with a vague sense of incompleteness, as if the point were never quite reached, or as if the composer had momentarily run short of ideas, the symphony as a whole is interesting and brilliantly orchestrated, utilizing the full powers of the orchestra...