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...musicians loomed, last week, in the U. S. They are: 1) Ignace Jan Paderewski; 2) Sir Thomas Beecham, leader of the London Symphony orchestra, guest conducting for the New York Philharmonic; 3) Maurice Ravel, renowned French composer, guest conducting for the Boston and other Symphonies; and 4) Bernardino Molinari, conductor of the famed Augusteo Orchestra at Rome, who will lead the St. Louis Symphony through a series of 15 concerts. Boasted the great Molinari: "In Rome I have 90 sopranos and 70 contraltos always available...
...Jazz is nothing but a march tune, something used more than 2000 years ago, with occasional syncopations thrown in, played on unpleasant instruments, as insipid saxaphone, harsh trombones and trumpets, and ratting drums," was the opinion of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Symphony concerts in Boston this week, as he addressed a group of newspapermen in his suite in the Ritz Carlton...
...think it has made life decidedly noiser," the conductor replied...
...band played "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." He, pleased, mounted the stage, took the conductor's baton, led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the last number of the program. He was William Andrews Clark Jr., guarantor of the orchestra. He had just pledged financial backing (lacking which the orchestra was about to disband) for another five years...
...fifth of the series of Sanders Theatre concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. M. Maurice Ravel, the French composer, will lead the orchestra tonight as guest conductor. Miss Lisa Roma will be the soloist at tonight's performance...