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Nicholas Slonimsky, noted Russianbern composer, conductor, and authority on modern music, will give a free public lecture in the Music Building at 8:15 o'clock next Friday night, on the subject "South American Composers." The lecture will be illustrated with musical selections...
Last week, complete with ten singers, a conductor and assistant, two rehearsal pianists, a stage director and a driver, Impresario Wagner's operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed...
...regard to what was said recently about programming, it occurs to me that a good deal could still be said, especially on a more concrete level. In that other column I suggested, somewhat arbitrarily, three obligations, of a conductor, or any program-maker: obligations to the public, to composers living land dead, and to themselves. Getting off this plane of theoretical criticism I should like to mention what seem to me the ills of the modern concert program...
...this question of conducting and rehearsing on which the Harvard Band becomes stymied, and where Michigan really goes into action. The Michigan boys practice three hours a day every day in the week under a professional conductor, and I have been told that they get course credit for this time-consuming activity. Our Band, not connected officially with the College, works on a purely voluntary basis, rehearsing only twice a week, with most of the second rehearsal devoted to formation practice. And what makes the going even tougher is that the director is not experienced enough to make the band...
...should like to apologize here for the statement I made in last week's column concerning the Harvard Glee Club repertoire. The statement condemning its conductor for omitting German music this year was based on faulty evidence, and the conclusion drawn from it an unjust...