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...annual Brattle Hall Concert to be given by the Pierian Sodality on December 14, Carmela Ippolito, violinist, will assist. The orchestra, consisting of 40 men, will play under the baton of Nicolas Slonimsky, its new conductor. The orchestra has already given two concerts and will give its third in Lowell on December 11 before the Brattle Hall Concert...
...Slommsky, the new conductor o the Orchestra, studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory. During the Russian Revolution he went to France where he continued his tudies. There he met Serge Koussevitsky, now conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and through his agency came to this country to teach in the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York. At present be is conducting the Boston Chamber Orchestra and accompanying visiting artists on the piano...
...Detroit, last week, Baritone John Charles Thomas arrived late for a rehearsal with the Detroit Symphony. The orchestra, busy under Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, would not stop immediately to go over the part of the program it was to share with Baritone Thomas, saw instead its star soloist stride angrily from the hall. This, explained Manager Jefferson B. Webb, was the reason for the last-minute substitution of Tenor Richard Crooks...
...people do not seem to realize or appreciate. Both depend more or less upon action, and what is essential, upon a director. It would be just as foolish for a group of actors to act without a director as for a band of musicians to strike up without a conductor...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Richard Burgin, guest conductor, in its concert tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre will have as its violin soloist. Albert Spalding...