Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baton whisked into the air last week, cut a circle or two to release the sombre sounds of Schumann's Manfred overture and in Manhattan an important audience settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began...
Other major U. S. orchestras, so classified on the basis of schedules, budgets and excellence, begin their seasons soon. They are, with their conductors, the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky; the Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra...
...Opening of 24-week Manhattan season of the Metropolitan Opera...
...first regular game of the season, the Harvard Freshman soccer team repeated last year's performance by defeating the Dean Academy eleven by a score of 3 to 1 on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon...
...tough defense of Syracuse was only penetrated once, two minutes before the end of the final period, by H. H. Broadbent '32, Crimson forward. Broadbent has been a stellar forward and bulwark of the Harvard team thus far this season, scoring three out of the team's four goals...