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...Harvard band of 116 pieces will take the field in the Yale bowl tomorrow led by baton-twirling Stuart H. Cowen '42. Coming on the gridiron the band will play "The Harvard Graduate School March," a new song by the band's conductor James W. Bolt, Jr. 3Dn. Between halves, besides going through several intricate formations, the group will entertain the crowd with "Harvard, Good Night," "Wintergreen," "Our Director," and "Fair Harvard...
Dinosaurs and Sound Tracks. Conductor Stokowski went to work in Philadelphia's mellow and acoustically perfect old Academy of Music, recording his symphonic accompaniments on sound tracks. This time he worked, not with the Hollywood pickup band that had recorded...
...studio in Manhattan, a squad of baritones warmed up. Said a sharp-eared passer-by to a receptionist: "Is there a job open for baritones? Maybe I can horn in on this audition." Horn in he did. When he sang before Conductor Wilfred Pelletier and other judges of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air-a Sunday program from which two singers annually are chosen for small places in the opera-he impressed them vastly. Last Sunday they put him on the auditions program-but as a guest, not a contestant...
Year ago, hailed by Boston's patrician Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, she made her Town Hall debut, unleashed a voice for which everyone predicted a future. Last week, long before she got to the inevitable Negro spirituals, Soprano Maynor showed that her future had begun. Her voice had rounded at the top, where it needed to; her knowledge of what she was about had deepened. Tenderly she sang Schumann's Du bist wie eine Blume, chicly she trilled a trifle of Bizet...
Pink-cheeked, bushy-browed Maestro Walter Damrosch, 78, built a baton-swinging cardboard effigy of Wendell Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...