Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open the front of one sleeping car and stove in the roof of another. A conductor on the express was killed. At least 39 passengers were hurt. Burrell Wilhelm was unscathed...
...coming true. Its engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs $5,000 a mile, prospects of a television network had seemed dim and distant...
...nearly two years, three nights a week, the Festival Chorus had rehearsed the choral numbers that were to be its main attraction. The chorus' 400 earnest adult members included debutantes, cooks, physicians. chauffeurs, lawyers, knife grinders. All had attended rehearsals with religious regularity, knowing that sharp-nosed Festival Conductor Eugene Goossens would promptly bounce any half-hearted singer from the ranks...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...
Monday Evening, May 15 Malcom Holmes, '28 Guest Conductor-- *"Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Rumba Clair Leonard, '22 *Academic Festival Overture Brahms G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Guest Conductor Two Choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa 1. Oh che gioja, che piacere 2. Per imbrogliar la testa Martinslied Hindemith Choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes John Knowles Paine (Written for the Harvard Classical Club, 1901) (1839-1906) Finale, from Suite for Orchestra Piston *Choruses from "Iolanthe" Sulivan The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Cond. *Overture to "Die Fledermaus Strauss Harvard Sketches Leroy Anderson Lowell...