Word: symphonicment
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. . We did not "lure" men away from other symphony orchestras; that was not necessary, nor would such procedure have been in keeping with our policy [TIME, April 25]. The facts are: after it was announced we were augmenting the NBC Orchestra to full symphonic strength, we received more than 700...
No U. S.-born conductor has ever been conceded a place at the top of his profession ; and few have ever rated a job as chief of even a second-rate U. S. symphony orchestra. A rare exception is the Kansas City Philharmonic's Karl Krueger, who last week...
Principal reasons for the dearth of famous U. S.-born maestros have been: 1) a lack of places where the young U. S. conductor can cut his teeth; 2) snobbishness. In Germany, where conducting is as specialized a profession as brain surgery, conductors are systematically trained and systematically advanced in...
Third U. S. name was that of Philadelphia's blonde, blue-eyed, Yankee-born Hilda Emery Davis, who in private life is the wife of Danceband-Leader Meyer Davis. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children...
*March, "Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *First Movement (Allegro moderato) "Unfinished" Symphony Schubert *Song to the Evening Star, "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Waltz Scene from "Faust" Gounod *The Lost Chord Trumpet solo: Roger Voisin Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *Hora Staccato (Roumanian...