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Chicago was thunderstruck. Its symphony orchestra, third oldest in the U. S.,* has always appeared to be built on solid rock. Fathered by 50 Chicago businessmen, it was a thriving two-year-old at the time of the World's Fair (1893). Conductor Theodore Thomas of the drooping mustache was having it play Wagner excerpts new even to Europe. In the panic of 1894 its deficit was only $20,000. Ten years later it built a home of its own, supposed to insure its permanent endowment. Violinist Frederick August Stock, a German of sound musicianship whose very bearing imparted...
...Harvard University Orchestra, the Pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of G. Wallace Wordsworth '24, conductor, will give a series of two public concerts at Paine Hall in the Music Building; the first next Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock, the second on March...
...first concert will be for a string orchestra of 25 pieces. Gustav Holst, famous English composer and conductor who is teaching composition at Harvard and has lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra on several occasions most recently in one of its recitals in Sanders Theatre, will conduct the orchestra in the rendition of a suite of his own composition for string orchestras...
...spoil the boy or make his approach to music commonplace. When he was playing the Brahms Concerto in Minneapolis, he forgot a part of the slow movement. He made no effort to cover his-lapse as most violinists would have done. With perfect poise he stepped up to Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, asked him to start the movement over again...
Depression hit another Pacific Coast orchestra early in the autumn. The Seattle Symphony had to curtail its season by half, as a result received the resignation of Conductor Karl Krueger. William Clark, book-collecting son of the late Senator Clark of Montana, stands by the Los Angeles Philharmonic even in time of trouble, but his job is lessened by the great popularity of Conductor Artur Rodzinsky. The Portland (Ore.) Symphony under Conductor Willem van Hoogstratten ran an aggressive campaign this season, reduced its salaries...