Word: ravinia
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...Stadium ("The weather-eet ees brutal"), to lead the Philharmonic Symphony for a week. Gushed effusive Concert Chairman Mrs. Charles S. ("Minnie") Guggenheimer of Monteux's reading of Beethoven's Fifth: "Simply magnificent! It wasn't at all like Beethoven!" The directors of Chicago's Ravinia Music Festival advertised a smooth combo to perform some trios by Schubert, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The lineup: Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Gregor Piatigorsky. Northwestern University promised to lend its applause by conferring honorary degrees on all three...
...grew up an infant prodigy, made his debut as a pianist and composer at the age of ten with the Vienna Symphony. He rose to be chief maestro of the pre-Hitler Berlin Opera. This summer he will conduct at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, Chicago's Ravinia Park and the Hollywood Bowl...
...Philharmonic-Symphony; the Cleveland Orchestra's roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin Hood Dell. Others were still several weeks ahead: the Chicago Symphony's six-week season in rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore; Chicago's free Grant Park concerts (for which the Chicago Federation of Musicians is putting up $48,000); Detroit's Belle Isle nights of music; Boston's Esplanade concerts, following the springtime "Pops"; summer music at the fusty, 69-year-old Chautauqua...
...Manhattan. He joined the Metropolitan in 1913 as assistant to Toscanini, coached stars of opera's "golden age"-Caruso, Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda. He was made conductor in 1916, served in the post for ten years, returned to it ten years later from conducting the Chicago and Ravinia Operas. He died a few hours before he was to have conducted Traviata, his first opera of this season...
...Grant Park attendance, the largest in the U. S., was expected to total 3,500,000 people from June 1 to Labor Day. Typical figures elsewhere: 300,000 at Manhattan's Stadium; 123,000 for twelve free concerts in Washington; 76,000 for 24 at Chicago's Ravinia; 132,000 for 33 at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell...