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Paul Whiteman, expansive Lord High Conductor of U. S. jazz, last week repressed his exuberant instruments heroically. He calmed the mourning, muted trumpet, put brakes on the slide trombone, and made them all tell stories. One story was written by Deems Taylor, jazz-appreciating classicist ? the story of circus day in a one-cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark...
...Freshman conductor for the Club will be selected from trials to be held after the Club is definitely organized...
...qualities of forthrightness and probity." Now since this is apparently a generalization, and one must be wary of generalizations, and since the aforementioned Roman gentleman was rather a keen observer of men, there is really no reason for placing too much faith in the words of the clinic conductor...
...have been the wife of Leopold Stokowski* from 1911 to 1923 would have filled life with sufficient eventfulness for most mortals, for few men have been more lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
...withdrawal of the University Glee Club from this year's intercollegiate contest was confirmed and explained last night in a statement to the CRIMSON by G. W. Woodworth '24, acting conductor of the Glee Club for the year 1925-1926. Mr. Woodworth wished to make it particularly clear that much of the material which has appeared in the daily press, commenting on this action of the Harvard authorities, conveys a wrong impression as to the nature of the negotiations and the reasons for the decision...