Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of the "Pops" concerts, held every spring in Symphony Hall, which have found considerable popularity among Harvard students ever since their inception, will be held this evening at 8.30 o'clock, under the baton of Arthur Fiedler, veteran "Pops" conductor...
...Woodworth, who will wield the baton in this presentation was the joint conductor, with Dr. A. T. Davison '05, of the Harvard Glee Club in its concert in honor of Gustav Holst...
...Welcome" is no more conventional than the run of musical comedies. The Playgoer is railing rather at the whole species. He thinks back to the brave days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of "Patience" and of "Pinafore." When the curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra offers a program featuring both modern and classical music in one of its regular series of concerts in the Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight. Dr. Sergo Koussevitzky, director of the Orchestra, will lead, the opening number, and will then turn the baton over to Dr. Gustav Theodore Holst, of London, England, who is staying in Boston this month as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Koussevitzky will conduct the rest of the program...
...intense is Louisiana partisanship that Governor Long dared not relinquish his State office to take his Senate seat lest his enemies seize and destroy his political organization. His hope was to continue his rule from Washington. Therefore, to be his successor at Baton Rouge he picked Oscar Kelly Allen, 49, red-faced, grey-haired chairman of the State Highway Commission and lifelong Long man. A country boy who taught school, ran a saw mill, took up politics, Mr. Allen hunts duck, fishes, says little, likes to stay at home. A Long boast: "I can sell anybody anything." During the primary...