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...University on next Tuesday and Thursday at 7.30 o'clock in the Music Building. The orchestra, which includes every instrument used in symphonic orchestration, consists of 30 to 35 men, and in conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, tutor and instructor in the division of music, assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, and conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society. Malcolm Holmes 4G is the assistant conductor of the orchestra...
...Conductor of last week's auction was Ward T. Bower, chief of the Alaskan Division of the Bureau of Fisheries. Long an expert on the seal industry, he joined the Bureau in 1903, has since made twelve trips to Alaska to see how things were going. Proud of Alaska's seals, he wants no confusion between this fur-bearing variety (Callorhinus alascanus) and the common hair-seal. Alaska has 80% of the world's fur seals. Besides seals, the Pribilof Islands are well stocked with foxes. From these the U. S. gets another item of profit...
...organize an opera season in Milan. Five years later she became his secretary. Tactful, efficient, she was useful in coping with his famed tantrums, in keeping people out of his way when necessary. But many were not yet ready to take her seriously. It is told how the conductor Antonio Guarnieri once met her on his way to the Maestro's office. Said she: "I am Signorina Colombo. What can I do for you?" Said Maestro Guarnieri curtly: "Run and get me a box of matches...
...Only in the English language has the orchestra leader a name which immediately suggests a street car conductor and gives occasion to all sorts of cheap jokes. I was going to take up with you this question and see if we could not call ourselves 'musical directors' instead of 'conductors.' Detroit would follow suit and pretty soon all the other orchestras would fall in line, I am sure...
...organists discussed technical, mechanical organ-problems, heard Pianist-Author John Erskine tell them that "the best music of the future" would be composed by them. They elected him an honorary member of the Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...