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...Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes and the managerial staff have spent the last week trying to find extra parts to the music and extra stands for the players in anticipation of a large crowd. The Radcliffe Orchestra has promised to come in full force, and other musicians ranging from students in the Shady Hill School to an alumnus of the Class of 1888, have been invited...
...smart, brisk little practitioner of radio and cinema music is Andre (''Kosty") Kostelanetz, who once was assistant conductor in the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, left his native land after the revolution to become U. S. accompanist to a number of second-string opera singers. For seven years, Kostelanetz has been a radio conductor, has had his name linked frequently with that of Soprano Lily Pons since he led the orchestra in her first two pictures (I Dream Too Much, That Girl From Paris). Commuting last year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles...
Tchaikovsky's sombre Romeo & Juliet Overture usually takes 16 min., or four or five sides of phonograph records, to present the strife between Montagues & Capulets, the love between their offspring, the appearance of Friar Laurence, the death of the lovers. By cutting whole pages of repetition and development, Conductor Kostelanetz will give casual listeners this week a pretty good idea what Tchaikovsky was driving at in only 285 sec. flat. Likewise the overture to The Barber of Seville will be reduced from 7 min. to 1½ min. and the late George Gershwin's 16-min. American...
Tonight, tomorrow, and Thursday Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor, will be in Paine Hall, in the Music Building, to welcome all comers from 7:15 to 9 o'clock...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra and its five series of concerts. The Orchestra is an old institution and is at present at the peak of its powers, a condition which is largely due to its continued leadership by one man during the past thirteen years. That man is the energetic Rusian conductor Serge Koussevitzky who has become famous throughout the world for his brilliance and his interest in the moderns...