Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Songs of the North in the War Between the States; Songs of the South in the War Between the States; Songs of Old New York (Frank Luther and Zora Layman, with the Century Quartet; Decca: 8 sides each...
Last winter, when the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs were in the lath-&-scaffold stage, New Yorkers and San Franciscans were already discussing tall plans for the music Fairgoers were to hear. Tallest planning was in Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign...
...time the Fair opened Director Downes got his second wind. Banking on patriotic fervor rather than musical interest, he succeeded in getting Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to hire the New York Philharmonic-Symphony for a concert or two apiece of their own national tunes. Nobody else was interested. But there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special...
Chosen for a beginning were 35 songs of the Civil War period (1861-65). Last week the two Civil War albums and a third containing songs of New York State were put on sale...
...York, where there are five race tracks, betting on horse races has been illegal since 1908, but bookmakers for the past five years have been permitted to operate at the tracks through a loophole in the law. Although most New York racing fans consider pari-mutuels* (which have been legalized in 18 States) a fairer system of betting, a small but powerful lobby in Albany has for five years influenced legislators against replacing book betting with pari-mutuel machines...