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Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemayá, Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Southern Symphony Orchestra (of Columbia, S.C.) in the Bach-Ormandy choral prelude, Sleepers Awake, Beethoven's Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony and Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor: Carl Bamberger...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). An All-Russian program: Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony, a Tchaikovsky song, Solitude, and excerpts from Stravinsky's Fire Bird. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Competition with other College musical organizations, however, soon drove the band out of the concert business, and subsequent sporadic attempts to introduce classical scores to the bandstand met little interest until this year when Malcolm H. Holmes '28, present conductor, and another veteran-heavy group of musicians took the plunge...
...Leroy Anderson '29, who gave the band its biggest single boost toward fame, joined the group as a Freshman and soon was composing tunes and medleys which were quickly added to the repertoire. After graduation, he stayed on as conductor and wrote his famous Ivy League medleys, now a distinct part of the Crimson's performances...