Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice, he made of the flaccid Manfred a deeply despairing hero and touched the bemuddled Cervantes knight with the tenderness of a great comedian. Not until the Beethoven, though, did he have material mighty enough for his greatest virtuosity. Ask any Manhattanite who is the world's greatest conductor and the answer, almost infallibly, will be Arturo Toscanini. Ask a Philadelphian and the answer will be, just as surely, Leopold Stokowski. Hence satisfaction, as blissful if not quite as novel, attended the first Philadelphia Orchestra concert given last week, a day after the Philharmonic...
Other major U. S. orchestras, so classified on the basis of schedules, budgets and excellence, begin their seasons soon. They are, with their conductors, the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky; the Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra...
Important also will be concerts by the non-commercial American Orchestral Society, in Manhattan, under Conductor Cliffton Chalmers; by the Omaha Symphony, Sandor Harmati; the Seattle Symphony, Karl Krueger; the Syracuse Symphony, Vladimir Shavitch...
...Woodworth '24, who is also assistant conductor of the Glee Club and conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Sodality will give concerts at Brattle Hall, the Harvard Club of Boston, the Harvard Union and probably the Boston City Club. Other concerts with neighboring glee clubs are also being planned...
...Pierian Sodality is the only organization in the University which offers the opportunity to practice and perform good orchestral music under a trained conductor and at the same time to have the advantages presented by an organized society of the University...