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...high-voltage cables, the insulation consists of paper tapes wound around the copper conductor, and impregnated with some heavy insulating oil: the whole is enclosed in a lead sheath. During the process of manufacture, air is inevitably occluded within the insulation and later while the cable is in operation gases are evolved from the oil. With high operating voltages these gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable...
Manhattan last week was prepared for a major musical event-the first U. S. visit of Ildebrando Pizzetti, famed Italian composer, and the premiere of his Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan...
March 7-Concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra; in Philadelphia. Guest conductor : Tullio Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera...
March 21-26-Brahms Festival: at Symphony Hall, Boston. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
...concert given in Manhattan the night after the Pizzetti-Toscanini celebration. This second concert was by the National High School Orchestra, an organization of 182 boys and girls trained by Joseph E. Maddy at the National High School Orchestra and Band Camp at Interlocken, Mich. Conductor Maddy, a professor of music at the University of Michigan, organized the School Orchestra in 1926, chose then 236 children from 30 states' to play at a music supervisors' conference. Out of this experiment developed the idea of a summer camp and the existing group selected from 20,000 secondary school musicians...