Word: symphonicment
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U. S. popular records are not so popular this year as usual. Those selling best are from the musicomedies Face the Music (Irving Berlin), Hot-cha (Brown & Henderson), Of Thee I Sing (George Gershwin). Despite Depression there is a steady demand for symphonic records, but radio quickly kills many a...
But Leginska's women face severe obstacles. People seem loth to subsidize a woman's orchestra. No matter how creditably a woman may play, she can rarely get symphonic training.* Women who play wind instruments are additionally handicapped by the fact that they look funny blowing. Until this year the...
The Boston musicians will render for the opening number Prokofieff's "Classical Symphony" Cp. 25. This will be followed by D'Arcy's "Symphonic Variations from Isiah Op. 42" and Ravel's "Rhapsodie Rapatele". Next on the program will be and "Lieheated" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde". The Overture...
Five years ago old Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone, widow of the man for whom Chicago's expensive Blackstone Hotel was named, was taken with an announcement that for the first time a Negro would be soloist with the Chicago Symphony. Old Mrs. Blackstone investigated. The Negro, 27, was the son...
There are two able young routine conductors in San Francisco now: Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron. Jacob Levison, 69-year-old insurance man, as head of the Musical Association, probably gives more than anyone else towards the orchestra's support. President Levison played the flute himself once...