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...Manhattan's Aeolian Hall one afternoon in 1925, Conductor" Walter Damrosch put down his baton, turned to the audience that had just listened to the first performance of a new work by an unknown young composer. Roared Damrosch, in facetious disavowal of music that he had nonetheless thought well worth performing: "If a young man of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder...
...Hands. In Manhattan, Theodore Grant, veteran of some 30 years behind bars, was charged at 91 with petty larceny. In Baton Rouge, La., Theodore Landrum, at 98, was recommended for pardon after serving half of a five-year prison stretch for theft...
...with . . . acrid, choking smoke. The public bolted for the exits, the musicians threw away their instruments and Mitchell, the bold and path-breaking composer with the true American spirit, groped on the floor in complete darkness, coughing and spitting with tear-filled eyes-he was trying to find the baton he had dropped...
...noon tomorrow, the band will start its traditional march from Memorial Hall to Soldiers Field and will have baton twirler Terrence Barry '52 alongside the drum major for the first time since the war. As the legend goes, if the baton twirler catches the baton when he throws it over the goal, the football team will wins Barry has a good record in practice...
...Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Sir Thomas Beecham, will give a concert in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, October 22. The British National orchestra comes to Boston after a short stand in New York and a weekend concert at Princeton. After the one performance here it goes on to the South and the mid-West...