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Word: orchestra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Right after his departure, his band held a meeting, formed a cooperative, elected vocalist Tony Pastor president, and decided to call themselves "Tony Pastor with Art Shaw's orchestra...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...effect on the development of twentieth century music a concert of his works is not only a demonstration of different aspects of Strawinsky's art, but also a showing of many ideas which have become basic characteristics of the contemporary musical idiom. Strawinsky himself will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in just such a program on Friday and Saturday when they will play The Card Game ballet music, the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, the suite from Petrouchka, and the Symphony of Psalms...

Author: By L. C. Hoivik, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

Last week a few lark-notes of new-style Russian music were heard in the U. S.: the overture to an opera, Gulsara, by Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere, veteran Soviet composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory. No streamlined Eastern orchestra gave it its first U. S. hearing, but the wide-awake, six-year-old Kansas City Philharmonic under cigar-puffing U. S. Conductor Karl Krueger. Conductor Krueger's first cellist, Frank Sykora, onetime pupil of Composer Gliere, had wangled the manuscript out of Russia. An audience of 2,500 Kansas Citizens turned out to hear the overture, and agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soviet Overture | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...beloved among Catherine's shoals of lovers, "looked not unlike Charlie Chaplin." He got away and took a rest from passion whenever he could. Tableau of "the broad Russian nature": Potemkin, at the battlefront, in his underground palace, amusing himself, between attacks of acute melancholia, with concubines, an orchestra, guitars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broad Russian Nature | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Longy School concert tonight will consist of music arranged for two pianos. The program includes the Piston Concertino for piano and orchestra, the Piano Concerto in A major and an Andante and Fugue by Mozart, and Ravel's La Valse. The practice of arranging orchestral scores for piano is one which can be very reasonably objected to on purely aesthetic grounds, for the music is certainly distorted in the process. The justification for such arrangements is a practical one. They are extremely convenient both for the student who can play them without orchestra and for the concert-goer who wishes...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

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