Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces, Maestro Defauw left a few loose bolts & nuts by the wayside. But as he zoomed across the finish line the audience in buff-walled Studio 8-H broke into cheers...
Three years ago, Violinist Jascha Heifetz asked Composer Walton to write him a violin concerto. Last spring Composer Walton delivered the completed manuscript at Heifetz' Connecticut estate, and last week in Cleveland Violinist Heifetz, with fidgety Artur Rodzinski's streamlined Cleveland Orchestra as background, gave the new concerto its first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret...
Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre. Muscovite socialites liked the way he conducted. But Sergei Rachmaninoff had other fish to fry. Not only was he Russia's best pianist, but also the composer of three operas, a symphony, two piano concertos and a sheaf of smaller and more popular operas. One of these, the "Flatbush" Prelude in C Sharp Minor, had already swept the world, made his name a byword among people who never went...
Last week, at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, tall, stoop-shouldered, 66-year-old Rachmaninoff stood on the conductor's platform for the first time in 30 years, earnestly rowed the Philadelphia Orchestra through two of his weightiest works. One was his Third and latest Symphony, the other his 45-minute-long choral symphony The Bells, which needs a 200-man chorus as well as a 100-man orchestra to boom out its melodious refrain. For several days he had given up piano practice to brush up his conducting technique. Said he: "Playing the piano and conducting...
...fifteen foot alley, have to be brought to the door by one set of stagemen and put into trucks by special loaders; a second group of loaders then takes the scenery out of the trucks, and gives it to a second set of stagemen. Also, non-union orchestra men or conductors may be used only if an equal number of union men are paid to stay away. Needless to say, prohibitively high wages are paid...