Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exceedingly beneficial to the club and account not a little for its present high standard. Would not an analogous plan in regard the Pierian Sodality prove beneficial to it also, and tend to raise the standard of our college orchestra? The writer has nothing but praise for the present conductor and congratulates the society in having one so fitted for the place; at the same time may not the question be asked: "Are not the services of a professional coach just as valuable in case of an orchestra as in base-ball or foot-ball?" The question is worth consideration...
...Hofmann boy will make his first appearance as a conductor in New York on Saturday night, when he will direct the performance of his "Polonaise Americaine," his first essay at orchestral writing...
...officers of the Pierian Sodality for the ensuing year are as follows: President, J. Mott Hellowell, '88; Vice-President and Treasurer, Benj. Carpenter, '88; Secretary. T. T. Seelye. '88; Conductor, F. H. Whipple...
...many of them, country boys accustomed to hard work add patient efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many...
...which the fate Desdemona is portrayed. The composer has adhered to strictly his own ideas and by doing so he has given us a most delightful and refreshing piece of music. The overture to Tannhaeuser made a very fitting close. It was given with great warmth and vigor the conductor allowing the bass more freedom than is his wont-The audience were completely carried away by the music and applauded Mr. Gericke most heartily at the end of the piece...