Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name be the first one signed to a musicians' protest cabled to Chancellor Hitler. In an open letter Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch recalled the attack made on Toscanini two years ago in Italy when he refused to conduct the Fascist anthem, how other musicians stood by him then. Sergei Koussevitzky going so far as to cancel concerts he had intended to give at the Scala, thus jeopardizing his chance of ever being invited to conduct in Italy again...
Based on the culmination of centuries' growth of the spirit of self consciousness in the Russian people with the mutiny of the crew of the armored cruiser Prince Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's "Potemkin," now showing at the Fine Arts Theatre, is a high-strung, example of the possibilities of the silent film. Director Eisenstein's masterful use of highly dramatical material, although artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects...
...disclosed but the Boston Symphony badly needs whatever it can get. Boston's band has never been offered a sizeable radio contract before. To help meet this season's deficit, which without N. B. C.'s help would have run to some $93,000, Conductor Sergei Koussevitsky and his non-union orchestra (only one in the U. S.) lately offered to turn back $46,000 from their salaries...
...stinking hovel of a Tiflis locksmith, Sergei Alliluiev, a brown-eyed girl was born in 1902. As an infant she grew accustomed to the furtive visits of a tall, violent, smoldering-eyed man who talked Revolution to her father, receiving in exchange deftly filed pass keys and professional advice on how to handle combination locks...
...Boston last week Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky presented a new Carpenter work called Patterns, in which shy John Alden Carpenter made his first appearance as a piano soloist. Boston's symphony subscribers went to the concert with high expectations. Composer Carpenter had delighted them before with Adventures in a Perambulator in which are described the reactions of an infant taking its daily excursion to the lake front; with Krazy Kat, sensitive, half-sad music for George Herriman's comic-strip characters; with a finely made Concertino for Piano & Orchestra...