Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck. The great bald Finn has come into...
...Koussevitsky has announced for the eighth pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the Third Symphony by Edward Burlingame Hill '94, a new score which is to be heard for the first time and performed from the manuscript...
Smeterlin was born in Bielsko, Poland, in 1892. At the age of eight he was invited to play a Beethoven concerto with the local orchestra. Despite parental opposition he took up music as a career and studied under Godowsky...
...Boynet, French pianist who appeared with the Boston Symphony two years ago, will be the soloist in the Concerto of Mozart in C Major (Kochel 467). The concert will open with Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, and close with Bach's Organ Passacaglia, as transcribed for orchestra by Ottorino Respighi...
George W. Phillips '39 will lead the chorus, while the orchestra will be conducted by David H. Kimball...