Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving the names of symphony orchestras which started their season of programs last week, you omitted the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Professor Brown of Harvard called it a "national model" for cities of this size...
...Ruggiero played publicly for the first time in San Francisco, all who heard him marveled. Early in the fall he played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...
...February 26, a concert followed by dancing will be presented at Brattle Hall; the orchestra will perform with a soloist at the Harvard Club of Boston on March 9; on April 1, another soloist will aid the Sodality in its concert at Paine Hall; and on April 28, a program will be given at the Boston Public Library. Although the date has not yet been decided, a performance followed by a dance will be given at Wellesley, in cooperation with the Wellesley Glee Club. Negotiations are being carried on with Milton Academy, Groton School, St. Mark's School, and Middlesex...
Conducted by Serge Koussevitsky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present a concert in Sanders Theatre tomorrow at 8 o'clock...