Word: lemay
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Portland Summer Symphony became the first concert orchestra to hire Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as guest artists. Object: to wipe out a $1,500 deficit. (Failed by $500, because of bad weather.) McCarthy gagged between numbers, did not conduct the orchestra. Said Conductor Paul LeMay, who did: "I wouldn't do it again...
...Paul Lemay, conductor of the Duluth Symphony, heard a choir sing Sister Martina's The Highwayman, advised her to orchestrate it and enter it in the annual Minnesota composers' competition of the State Federation of Music Clubs. Sister Martina did, won handily. Last week Conductor Lemay, the Symphony and a 250-voice chorus gave The Highwayman its first full performance...