Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra of 20 pieces is to play the following program...
...program of Christmas music performed by a large chorus and orchestra featuring soloists from all parts of the University and from Radcliffe will be presented Tuesday night at 8:30 in the dining room of Leverett House. It is open to the public...
Student members of the orchestra are: Eric T. Clarke '38, John T. Clarke '41, N. James Dain '39, Paul Franken '40, Richard S. Fogelman '40, Roger W. Loewi '39, James L. Morrisson '38, Rupert W. Pole '40, Raphael N. Silverman 2G, concertmaster, Elkan Turk, Jr. '39. The remaining ten members are from Radcliffe or outside. David H. Kimball '38, director of the entire group, conducts the orchestra...
...fond of Italian opera, particularly of Verdi, whom he considers one of the greatest figures in music. For him Mozart and Mendelssohn "are the two greatest geniuses of the orchestra," and Beethoven, "the master above all others." However, in a recent interview he remarked with a twinkle: "All good composers lived in Egypt 5,000 years...
...musicians, it was nonetheless admirably suited to the occasion. Pianist Hofmann is the businesslike, hard-working dean and director of Philadelphia's 14-year-old Curtis Institute of Music. For the Jubilee, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, its benefactor and his good friend, paid the expenses of an orchestra of Curtis students, faculty members and 29 Curtis graduates now playing in major U. S. orchestras, and with the Institute's Fritz Reiner on the podium they played the pompous Academic Festival Overture of Brahms. The date of the Hofmann Jubilee was also Rubinstein's birthday...