Word: symphonicment
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Ever since it was founded in 1881 by aristocratic, union-hating Major Henry Lee Higginson, the Boston Symphony had rebuffed all efforts at unionization. A strike over the issue in 1920 was quelled by the management at great expense to U.S. symphonic music when some 31 strikers left. Conductor Koussevitzky...
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Conductor Stock loved Chicago. His mission, in which he largely succeeded, was to foster in Midwesterners the belief that symphonic music could be as American as Milwaukee beer, as free of foreign snobbery as Michigan Avenue.
*U.S. chicken farmers have reported experiments in which hens, subjected to symphonic music, laid 18.9% more eggs.