Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults and a small but energetic pit orchestra...
...advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends while grinning servilely at prominent classmates. Incidentally, the tune is one of the liveliest in the show. Other appealing melodies: "Something in the Air" and "On a Sunday Evening" (recorded by Guy Lombardo's orchestra for Columbia...
...Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance, wanted another hearing. More immediate was Boston's grasp and appreciation of Stravinsky...
...after night, while protests against the film piled up in the office of the Reich Film Censorship Board, the Nazi menagerie made its appearance in the theatre, amplified last week by the presence of a number of garden snakes that slithered over the feet of the audience, coiled under orchestra chairs. Socialist Prussian cabinet members and officials did their best to express approval of the film by going to the theatre in a body one night, applauding loudly. Said Prussian Prime Minister Dr. Adolf Braun...
After his press ordeal, Dr. Einstein had a good time in Manhattan. He looked up two old friends, Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Violinist Fritz Kreisler, called upon John Davison Rockefeller Jr., met Helen Keller. Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, invited the Einsteins to a concert, sat them in a box belonging to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested...