Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...while you cup at the Blue Angel. Le Huban Bleu 4 E. 56th, features no less then ten nightclub artists to distract you during supper. Le Coq Rouge, just down the block from Le Ruban at 65 E. 56th, supplies Phil D'Arey's trio and Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while you're eating but not bad if you're drinking. If you are after the best, and you have just lost a little-known relative in the oil business, don't dally--take off for "21" W. 52nd...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform here tonight under the direction of Charles Minch. The concert is to be held at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
Testy old (71) Sir Thomas Beecham was in a mellow mood. With the 105 members of his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he had cleared the brambles of the U.S.'s new Security Act without a scratch, while German and Italian musicians were having a time of it. (Said Sir Thomas blandly: "We're all British, thank God.") There was a deeper reason for his satisfaction: he was set to face U.S. audiences with an orchestra of his own-an enterprise "I have undertaken in a becoming spirit of modesty and humility." In fact, beamed Sir Thomas, he had come...
Conductor Beecham's crooning modesty did not come from any qualms about the quality of his orchestra. As orchestras go, his Royal Philharmonic is almost brand-new (though the Royal Philharmonic Society, which sponsors it, can boast that it commissioned a tenth symphony from Beethoven, which he never lived to write). But Sir Thomas had painstakingly collected his orchestra himself after World War II-"because there was no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation." After five years of drilling and polishing, he was confident that the Royal Philharmonic was one that he could...
First, the audience got to its feet for a robust Star-Spangled Banner and a dignified God Save the King. Then, for two hours, the music lovers watched Sir Thomas, one of the most graphic conductors of them all, play his perfectly disciplined orchestra like an organ. They heard great music played to the hilt with an unmistakably British accent...