Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This calls for an extra tip." Eventually, the taxicabs got under way, carrying 16 American girls dressed in flowing silver-grey silk and toting violins, violas, cellos and a string bass; their conductor, Boris Sirpo, and a few assistants. In sum total they were the Little Chamber Orchestra from Portland, Ore., and their destination was the National French Television studio in Rue Cognacq...
Conductor Sirpo abandoned his own conservatory in Finland when the Russians invaded in 1939 and headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife...
...Portland was hardly aware that it even had an all-girl orchestra before the girls departed, and managed to raise only a dismal $6,100 toward the tour expenses. As a result, each girl dug up-by borrowing, selling instruments, etc., some $1,500 of her own, and stands to spend it all. But Portland knows better now, will parade the girls through downtown streets when they get home next week, already has scheduled a big fund-raising concert two days after homecoming. After that? "This is only the beginning," says Sirpo. "We still have to go to South America...
DOUG BAKER Portland...
...AMERICAN AIRWAYS is bidding for a polar route from the U.S. West Coast to Europe. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered the run is booked to capacity for the summer. Pan Am has asked CAB's O.K. to fly one-stop from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle to London and Paris...