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Last week for the first time in the U. S. an orchestra announced that it was for hire. Sponsor of the venture was U. S. Conductor Leon Barzin, who has long mulled over the problem of how U. S. pianists and fiddlers who are not headliners can get a chance to play with an orchestra. Conductor Barzin's new American Orchestra, a professional, unionized, 72-man group of players, offered its services to soloists at a minimum price of $1,800 per concert. First taker, who appeared last week in a Carnegie Hall concert with the new group...
...beautiful Indian Summer afternoon, Composer Krenek's latest opus, a musical pie called Piano Concerto No. 2, was set before Boston's dowagers and debutantes at a Boston Symphony concert in Boston's Symphony Hall. Stocky Ernest Krenek himself sat hungrily up to the piano. Conductor Koussevitzky was ill, so it fell to Concertmaster Richard Burgin to dish it up. When the pie was opened and the bats began to squeak, the audience could hear that Composer Krenek had been true to his atonality, and in his own fashion. A dozen Bostonians got up and left...
...fellow. It isn't the mechanical end that lures him, for he is an awful dud at such things. It must be some bit of the romance and glamor of the "high iron" in his blood. His mother tends to blame it on his Uncle Rome who is a conductor and a mighty fine man. Uncle Rome might have been a big shot in some line, but he liked trains and never got around to anything else...
...conductor lit a pipe. "Both sides passed out uniformly bad cigars this year, and neither party commits itself on the question of Grade B motion pictures. What Boston needs is a five cent fare or a fire." Seeing this line of questioning was getting me nowheres, I lowered my voice...
...conductor shook his head. "The Republicans are trying to get out of the grass roots and into the gravy. The Democrats have been eating ham and eggs in California and their own words in New York. As for me, I forgot to register." Hu F. Huey's Big Four Saltonstall over Curley Lehman over Dewey Quinn over Vanderbilt Harvard over Yale