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...Fifty years have passed since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson undertook to provide Bostonians with a permanent orchestra, brought over German George Henschel to take first command. Despite his 80 years, Henschel came back last week to inaugurate the jubilee season with a repetition of his original program. Conductor Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky anticipated the opening with a superb radio concert, planned his actual return for the season's second week. Scheduled for the winter are the premieres of many contemporary works, a Beethoven Festival to be given in Washington through the first week in December, a Bach Festival...
...North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose for his instrument the bull fiddle, toured Europe for ten years as a contrabass virtuoso. By 1919 he had achieved his ambition, become a conductor again. Koussevitzky concerts were soon famous in Moscow and Petrograd but that was not enough for its leader. He wanted to reach the great masses of Russians who had never heard a symphony concert. So for several summers he chartered a steamer, cruised the 2,300 mi. down the River Volga...
...Seattle the Orchestra has followed the example of Cleveland, chosen for its new manager a woman, Bertha M. Stryker, energetic worker in the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. (Cleveland's capable orchestra manager is Adella Prentiss Hughes.) Karl Krueger, young Viennese conductor who took over the Seattle Orchestra at the time of its reorganization in 1926, again has sole command...
Detroit's opening concert was scheduled to present Ossip Gabrilowitsch as soloist as well as conductor. Associate Victor Kolar will have charge during Gabrilowitsch's tenure in Philadelphia (see above). A tour will take in several college towns...
...played at coming concerts are For full orchestra Symphony No 7 by Mozarf. Overture to "Rosamunde" by Schubert. Norwegian Dances by Grieg. Suite for orchestra by Paul Hindemith (modern). For string orchestra Bach's Violin Concerte in E. major with solo violining played by M. H. Holmes 3G assistant conductor of the orchestra accompained by string orchestra. Covelli's Concert Crosse No 8 for string orchestra and a triple concerto for two violina and a cello, and the "Capriol" Suite for string orchestra by Peter Warlock (a modern number...