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...survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States who entered the first preliminaries four months before. The Europeans (four Germans, one Italian, Pole, Irishman and Finn) were the cream of the continent. They had two Olympic champions: Heavyweight Herbert Runge of Germany and Bantamweight Ulderico Sergo of Italy...
...last-named composer in represented by his famous Third or "Eroica" Symphony which was played last weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard...
...biggest funeral since Lenin's" was promptly got under way for "Sergo"-Stalin's nickname for Ordzhonikidze. Other programs were switched off and Soviet radio stations broadcast elaborate eulogies of Sergo. Accompanied by an endless dirge, a solemn death watch over the body was begun, the Dictator himself joining in a guard which was changed every few hours, maintained day & night, with Big Reds clamoring for the honor of standing at the four corners of the bier while tens of thousands shuffled past...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra offers a program featuring both modern and classical music in one of its regular series of concerts in the Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight. Dr. Sergo Koussevitzky, director of the Orchestra, will lead, the opening number, and will then turn the baton over to Dr. Gustav Theodore Holst, of London, England, who is staying in Boston this month as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Koussevitzky will conduct the rest of the program...