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...aspire then to be something solider than a keynoter. Already he is marked as a young man who has come far but should go farther. An ambitious farm boy, he worked his way through University of Minnesota as clerk in a store, "grease boy" in a bakery, sleeping car conductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. In the R. O. T. C., he was such a dead-shot with a rifle that he was put on as an act in an R. O. T. C. circus, where he shot the brass buttons off a fellow soldier's uniform. Lean...
...first performance of a Purcell Dance suite for strings and flute, arranged by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the orchestra, will feature the concert. Among many hitherto unknown manuscripts belonging to the crown in the British Museum in London, Holmes discovered the work last summer while occupied in research...
...jovial, avuncular manager to perfection, has made S. HUROK PRESENTS-he insists on big type-a profitable billing in U. S. concert business. He arrived in the U. S. in 1905 with less than $2 in his pockets, knocked about as a peddler of pins & notions, a trolley conductor, a factory worker. Fond of music, he organized the Van Hugo Musical Society (he invented the name, which he thought imposing), and arranged concerts for labor organizations. His first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose fee he beat down to $500. S. Hurok hired the New York Hippodrome for popular...
...conductor wishes to deafen his hearers with a supercolossal roll of the drums or double them up in agony with a high note from the violins, Bell Telephone Laboratories now offers him an opportunity by new "stereophonic" recordings, on motion-picture film, of "enhanced"' music. In stereophonic recording, sound is picked up by three microphones widely separated on the sound stage, to produce an illusion of tonal depth and space comparable to that of an actual performance. It may then be "enhanced" by a conductor, taking the stereophonic recording and fiddling with various mixers to bring out clearer tonal...
...Conductor since the start has been Hans Kindler, bouncing, blond Netherlander, no kindler of heat in his 80 players but a hilarious prankster, always good for a funny pose when the boys with the cameras come around. Last week the National Symphony announced that this season would be its last. Reason: union trouble...