Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Gilbert and Sullivan Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club Novelty Saxophone Specialty Robert White '32 Marche Militaire Schubert Mandolin Club Legerdemain Specialty William S. Warner '32 Intermission Hittin' the Bottle Gorney-Arlen Can This be Love? (from the Warner Bros. picture "Life of the Party") Gold Coast Orchestra Specialty Lute Solos W. S. Georges '32 Two Guitars Horlick Espana Waltz Waldteufel Mandolin Club Two Grenadiers Schuman-Zeiner Sea Chanteys (arranged by Terry) Vocal Club Football Medley (arranged by Rice) Banjo Club Fair Harvard Gilman, 1811 Combined Clubs
Concerts certain to cause as much comment as any this season will be given during the next fortnight in Manhattan and Philadelphia. Arturo Toscanini will leave his Philharmonic-Symphony, go to Philadelphia to conduct Leopold Stokowski's Orchestra. Stokowski will go to Manhattan to conduct the Philharmonic. Changing boats in the middle of the stream is a unique venture for conductors, a challenge to audiences to compare their talents...
...Tristan at Bayreuth, gave new life to the declining Wagner festivals, was asked to take over the artistic direction. But despite his successes he came back last week depressed, lonely. In Bayreuth he was deeply affected by the death of Siegfried Wagner. After his own Philharmonic, the Bayreuth Orchestra was a constant source of displeasure and disappointment to him. And on July 13 large, capable Signora Toscanini lost her wedding ring, the next day broke her leg which has been so long healing that she was unable to go with her husband to the U. S. Without Signora Carla...
Last week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...
...Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington's orchestra, of Harlem's famed Cotton Club, are driven in the Fresh Air Taxi, and with the deed to some southern property. It must have been hard to make up and it is wearily told. Typical shot: Amos & Andy in the haunted house...