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...Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28, who directed the orchestra for nine years, has selected little known music for his concerts. Besides the Haydn Symphony No. 1 (the Drum Roll), the one well-known piece on the programs, the orchestra is rehearsing selections such as "Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb", written by Professor Edward E. Ballantine '07 and orchestrated by Robert U. Jameson '32, former Pierian president. A clever satire on the work of Schuber, Tschaikovsky, MacDowell, and Wagner, the work of the various composers is easily recognizable in the composition even by amateurs...
Professor Davidson, who has been on the staff of the Music department since 1910, and was conductor of the Glee Club from 1912 to 1934, is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on choral singing in the country. In his capacity as professor of Music 1, which he has been teaching for many years, he is equally as well known...
...were four daughters, then they became four wives, and now that bore-some foursome has turned out to be "Four Mothers." Surprisingly enough, despite recent Hays' office laxity, all the mothers are married. So the plot centers about the very unexciting career of their father (Claude Rains), an orchestra conductor who gets neither sympathy nor symphonies until after the old homestead has been sold to the wreckers. Then he hits a streak of luck, conducts a poorly recorded concert, regains the old homestead, and leaves everybody happy--at least everybody on the screen...
...conductor of the Boston Symphony...
...stage of Carnegie Hall tripped demure, blonde Ellen Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional...