Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald, black-bearded co-worker Alfred Hertz, Artur Bodanzky shook his baton at four hours of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Critics were impressed. Bodanzky stayed, became a U. S. citizen and a permanent conductor at the Metropolitan. But he got few chances to conduct anything but Wagnerian opera...
...after a tiff with the Met's management, Artur Bodanzky. still a Wagnerian conductor, resigned to conduct symphonies for Manhattan's Friends of Music. Said he: "I shall not say I am sorry to give up opera." To replace him the Metropolitan imported an unknown named Josef Rosenstock. After five of Rosenstock's feeble exhibitions of batonistic piddle-paddle, Manhattan critics howled him down, sent him scurrying back where he came from. General Manager Gatti-Casazza persuaded Bodanzky to return. For ten more years he went on conducting Wagnerian opera...
Because of his tremendous 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...
Coaches Dick Harlow and Ducky Pond will both be featured speakers on the broadcast. Kieran will conduct a round table consisting of such sports authorities as John Lardner, George Carens, Vic Jones, Bill Cunningham, and others. Announcer Bill Stern will also be on hand. Lemuel A. Watkins '21 will address the rally on behalf of the hosts...
Paine Hall will be the scene of a joint concert by the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Radcliffe Orchestra and the Harvard University Orchestra tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock. Malcolm H. Holmes and G. Wallace Woodworth will conduct...