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With new mise en scènes for Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, an improved chorus, a company of famed conductors including Fritz Busch, Michael Balling, Dr. Karl Muck (in 1906-8, 1912-18, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Willibald Kahler, the annual Bayreuth Festival, it was announced last week, will begin on July...
...Schwab, and the irreverent cannonade of a thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with...
This is the first time that Sousa and his band have ever appeared at the University. The famous conductor, who is very much interested in the progress of music at the University, offered to give a complimentary concert to the students some time ago. The corporation accepted and the final arrangements with the manager of the band have just been completed. The band will be on tour at the time, but will stop over long enough in Cambridge to give the concert. This will be the organization's only appearance in Boston and vicinity this fall...
John Philip Sousa is recognized as one of the most gifted and authoritative band conductors in the country and his spirited and tuneful melodies have won a deserved popularity the world over. He early showed evidence of marked musical talent and started his work as a conductor at the age of 17. In 1880 he became the leader of the United States Marine Band and held that position until 1892, when he organized and directed his own personal organization...
...around the world. During the war Lieutenant Sousa joined the navy and became the director of a band at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill. At one time his band there was the largest group of musicians that had ever played under the direction of one conductor and became nationally known...