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...shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear him play a new concerto which had disturbed and pleased the International Festival for Contemporary Music last June in Frankfurt. But when Conductor Willem Mengelberg looked over the score, he pronounced it too difficult for just a week's rehearsing. Therefore, Bartók played his Rhapsody. The substitution was unfortunate. The Rhapsody is 24 years old now, the product of an immature genius. Bartók the Original began like...
...Onetime conductor with the Chicago Civic Opera; with Covent Garden, London...
...where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave the theatre, light their cheap cigarets with an uncouth and elaborate imitation of his gesture...
...this, by some consciously & by others unconsciously, was taken into consideration last week when Conductor Ethel Leginska put the Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra through the paces of its first concert. She played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly...
Fifty-six members of the Harvard Glee Club, and Professor A. T. Davison '06, conductor, will depart for New York tomorrow on their Christmas tour to various cities of the United States and Canada. The New York concert is to be held tomorrow evening in the Town Hall...