Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierian Sodality this year under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, also assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and a conductor of the Radcliffe choral Society, is under a new policy of management, and an interesting series of concerts is being booked at the present time. Woodworth is now selecting the music to be played, and noteworthy repertoire for the concerts is in preparation...
...conductor for the coming season will be G. W. Woodworth '24, who is also the assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society. Woodworth is now selecting the music to be used by the orchestra and states that a most interesting repertoire for the concerts will be ready at the start of the season...
...Germanic city like Milwaukee can long endure without music of its own. One Milwaukee orchestra lately died. Last week another was born, named the Milwaukee Philharmonic, with 65 players from the old. Frank Laird Waller, the new conductor, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin who has been organist, accompanist, vocal teacher, guest conductor in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Rochester, Minneapolis, Cincinnati. With steady, vigorous beat he last week directed his Milwaukee debut. Featured were Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Yvonne Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture...
Coates Off. Conductor Albert Coates of London finished his guest-conducting of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan, 80 minutes before his boat sailed for Europe one night last week. He still had time to make a speech, and said, "It isn't an orchestra. It's a miracle." Knowing ones credited tireless Willem von Hoogstraten, summer director...
...Boston, when Conductor Agide Jacchia of the Boston Symphony's "Pop" (popular) concerts suddenly resigned on the night before the season's finale, Arthur Fiedler was given the baton. He was ready for it, the first Boston-born conductor to lead the Boston Symphony...