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...opera was, in fact, going on-Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, best-seller of recent Metropolitan seasons, its cast headed in familiar top-notch style by Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad. Evident from the first drop of Mr. Bodanzky's baton was a greatly improved orchestra. Not so evident, but present nevertheless, was a brand new stage floor capable of supporting even a Wagnerian soprano without creaking. Last season's major Wagnerian discovery, svelte Swedish Kerstin Thorborg, again drew critical superlatives for her performance as the vacillating Brangane. Youthful American Julius Huehn again donned whiskers, impersonated...
There can't be much in this band-baton-over-the-goal-post business. The Harvard baton wiedler missed twice before the game, making it only on the third try, and the team did all right. But maybe it was meant to symbolize Harlow's two unsuccessful and third triumphant crack at the Tigers
Jimmy Munroe, leader of the Lowell band which made noisy appearances all over Cambridge and vicinity Tuesday, has enough trouble in managing his toilet-plunger baton without having dissension in the ranks of his followers...
...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...
Robert A. Mansfield '38 is the new Drum Major. He was chosen out of three Major. He was chosen out of three after a competition which consisted mainly of baton twirling contests, and replaces Robert M. Irwin...