Word: seidl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his sound musical background and his ready Irish charm Herbert was bound to make himself known. Little time passed before Conductor Anton Seidl made him his assistant for the Brighton Beach concerts. For four years thereafter Herbert led the famed Pat Gilmore band, for six the Pittsburgh Symphony. On Broadway he became a legendary figure. His capacity for work was equaled by his Gargantuan appetite for food and drink...
...Broadway. The musicians stood up to play then. Several chosen for their "appearance and address" acted as ushers, wore white gloves until the Society discovered it could save $4.75 if they went barehanded. Never has a Philharmonic concert been canceled. Only two have been postponed, one when Conductor Anton Seidl died suddenly, the other when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Radio has made the Philharmonic the world's most widely heard orchestra. Columbia Broadcasting System figured that 9,000,000 listened to Toscanini's birthday concert, the 2,981st concert that the Philharmonic has given. For its artistic prestige...
...Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised, the season will be shorter than it has been for 31 years. It will not open until the night after Christmas when, experience has taught the directors, business always starts running high. In the 14 weeks...