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...minimum weekly wage scale of $75 as against this year's $90; a cut in the number of concerts from 126 to 100. The Orchestra is to have the choice of the number of players over & above a minimum of 87. (This year 97 musicians played under Conductor Frederick August Stock...
...State-wide campaign for 30,000 sponsors progressed last week, a definite season was forecast with Composer Stringfield the choice for conductor. At the trial concert three weeks ago Mr. Stringfield's performance gave great impetus to the State-symphony idea. His music was spirited, well-knit in spite of limited rehearsal. His debonair manner is as impressive as any imported foreigner's. Otto Hermann Kahn telegraphed congratulations. North Carolinians are particularly proud of Mr. Stringfield's musical allegiance to his home soil. He has studied and conducted in the North but his composition which...
...ADMITTANCE signs plastered the doors of a room on S. S. Ile de France in mid-Atlantic. Behind the doors were famed Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 15. Every day while Yehudi played, Toscanini turned pages. One evening Conductor Toscanini presented Yehudi in the first-class salon as sole performer in the ship's concert. The boy had consented to play on condition that everyone aboard be permitted to attend. Proceeds: 40,000 francs...
...rays were first discovered when it was found that air could not be made into a perfect electrical insulator by purification. Inasmuch as pure air is a non-conductor of electricity unless ionized, it was found that a hitherto unknown agency accomplished that ionization with increasing intensity as the altitude above sea level was increased. It was concluded, therefore, that the electrifying agency originated outside the Earth; it was accordingly determined to ascertain the nature of the so called cosmic rays, and one of the first essentials to be determined in their study is their origin...
Berlin's leading functionaries gathered proudly a month ago to celebrate with music and speeches the soth birthday of their city's great Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler turned around to the audience for a change, started to talk. The audience shifted uncomfortably. This was no happy ending to a happy occasion. The conductor was praising his own orchestra at the expense of others. His auditors were startled when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "Luxu-shunde [pet puppies] which one keeps without inner necessity...