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...Conductor Goldman, who has encountered all kinds of weather and all sizes of audiences (up to 60,000) in his 1,398 concerts, was unruffled by the wet evening. He knew that of the hardy hundreds who braved the rain, some were there to hear the light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman...
...successor to John Philip Sousa as top U.S. bandmaster, Goldman finds the world far less attuned to blown music than in Sousa's heyday. The broadcast subtleties of symphonic music and of modern jazz arrangements have eclipsed the concert band. But Conductor Goldman's faith is not shaken. Says he of band music: "I don't believe it's inferior; I just believe it's different...
Choral music will be under the direction of Mr. G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society and the University Organist-Choirmaster. The Summer School Chorus will be open to all members of the Summer School and will meet for rehearsals on Monday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock in Sever...
Instrumental music during the summer will be under the direction of Mr. Malcolm H. Holmes, Conductor of the Harvard University Orchestra. The Orchestra will present an informal program of music by Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi on Thursday evening, July 23, and will join with the Summer School Chorus in the joint concert on Tuesday evening, August...
Those years were not uniformly dreary. They were warmed by the half-filial, half-erotic friendship of many young men, notably the young Irish streetcar conductor, Peter Doyle. They were cheered by the startling letters of Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. She had read the Leaves and wrote their author: "Nothing in life or death can tear out of my heart the passionate belief that one day I shall hear that voice say to me, 'My mate. The one I so much want. Bride, wife, indissoluble, eternal.' ... O come, come, my darling, look into these eyes and see the long...