Word: franko
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the soft strains of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde were floating out over Lewisohn Stadium last week, an airplane swooped low over the city, its roar and honk drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay...
...organizations. One is the Goldman Band which plays songs and marches, operatic arias and favorite symphonies in Central Park, or on the campus of New York University. These concerts cost nothing to hear. Sponsored by the Guggenheims (Mr. & Mrs. Daniel and Mr. & Mrs. Murray), they are conducted by Edwin Franko Goldman, who, ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens of Manhattan who prefer cigaret smoking to gum-chewing, Willem van Hoogstraten to Franko Goldman, and paying 25? to $1 for a seat to listening for nothing, there are the Philharmonic concerts...
...Edwin Franko Goldman (Goldman's Band...
...like huge bundles of dark feathers, the lawns like scraps of green silk patterned with pathways. Here gum-chewers, muttering "loves me ... . loves me not . . ." as they tear the wrappers from their chiclets, take delight in strolling, in listening to the music coming from the Mall, where Edwin Franko Goldman conducts his band...
Last week Edwin Franko Gold man stood on his bandstand listening, not to the warm notes of his trombone but to words which one William B. Roulstone, President of the Central Park Association, was saying. Finally he reached, not for his score, but for a bronze desk-set offered by audiences, for a golden plaque, which members of his band had caused to be decorated with an engraving of their leader's face. "Only Coolidge, Harding, Lindbergh have had such portraits," said Mr. Roulstone. "The trio should be a quartet . . . gold to a Goldman...