Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Dinner of the Bohemians of Chicago (musicians' club) to Frederick Stock on his 25th anniversary as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...most macabre of the detectives' stratagems was a scene enacted every night last week in the more popular Düsseldorf beer halls. While the clinking of mugs and the chomping of sausages were at their height three black-clad detectives entered, carrying a coffin. Perhaps the orchestra had been playing the German jazz hit of the year: Ich Küsse Deine Hand, Madame! ("I Kiss Your Hand, Madame!")*As one of the detectives clapped his black-gloved hands, the jazz snapped off into thundrous silence...
DVORAK'S SYMPHONY No. 4 by Basil Cameron and Symphony Orchestra (Brunswick, $4)-Whereby the great Czech will prove to many that he wrote other symphonies than the New World. His Fourth has Czech folk themes, skillfully woven variations...
BIZET'S L'ARLESIENNE, excerpts by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)-The warm, instantly appealing music made for Daudet's play. Conductor Stokowski plays it brilliantly. Operagoers will recognize bits borrowed to make the Carmen ballet...
...Duzer Burton, Baltimore socialite, gave a ball at his home near Monkton, Md. (once the house of dandaical Sportsman Foxhall Keene). At midnight, while the orchestra was playing a waltz, into the ballroom in his pink hunting coat gravely rode Van Duzer Burton on Golden Eagle, his favorite hunter...