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...Fort Dix were bored with the kind of entertainment the Army put on for them and decided to make some of their own. The idea was catchy. Before long, they swelled from a quartet to an octet, then to a chorus of 16. By the time Lieut. Leonard de Paur joined the regiment in Arizona, the 372nd Infantry's Glee Club had 55 members, were singing war songs and Negro spirituals with a fair amount of polish, and the Army finally put them on special duty, to do nothing but sing...
...symphony orchestra, formed last fall, had been trying on conductors like a rejuvenated dowager trying on new hats. In the 'nineties and the early 1900s Pittsburgh boasted a respectable symphony orchestra under genial Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Kiss Me Again), and sternly mustached Emil Paur. In 1910 the orchestra collapsed, remained collapsed for 16 years. Subsequent revival, on a shoe-string budget under Conductor Antonio Modarelli, was halfhearted...
...Wilhelm Gericke is to resume the leadership of the Boston Symphony Orchestra next year. He was the second leader of the orchestra, taking it after Mr. Henschel in 1884 and keeping it until 1889. He was succeeded by Mr. Nikisch, and then by Mr. Emil Paur, who gave his last concert in Music Hall on Saturday. Mr. Gericke has been living in Dreden and Vienna since he left Boston; as he is in many ways the greatest leader the Symphony has had, his return is welcomed...
During the sixteen years of its existence the Boston Symphony Orchestra has acquired an enviable reputation as the highest exponent of orchestral work in this country, and the Cambridge concerts are always on equally as high a standard as the Boston performances. Under the conductorship of Mr. Emil Paur, the following works will be given this winter...
Tonight at 7.45 in Sanders Theatre, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr. Emil Paur, will give the following programme...