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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tackle positions Henry Adlis Seems a sure bet for the right side, but Ed Simmons is only a jump ahead of Bill Lane for the parallel job on the left. Lane has improved a great deal in the last few days and is now rated as at least second string. For guards, Franks Littlefield will be Captain Herman Gund- lach's understudy, with Bob Brookings a grasshopper's length ahead of Fran Schumann for the opposite side of the line. Gundy, incidentally, will be ready for contact work today or tomorrow...
...real hero of the occasion is the huge stage of the huge Center Theater (3,700 seats) which has been a money-loser for a year as Rockefeller Center's second-string cinema theatre. Producer Max Gordon was obliged to build a new proscenium because the original arch would have dwarfed even his gigantic sets. In the finale, the orchestra pit rises majestically, slides back to join the other half of the orchestra onstage. and the united orchestra keeps on sliding back and back, leaving a huge ballroom with golden chandeliers and white and gold columns, ready...
...electric gong signaled the beginning of the concert. An attendant notified Mrs. Coolidge and she straightened her leopard shawl, took her usual place four pews from the front. Of the quiet string music she heard nothing. But the programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three days, of the 23 works played, 13 were dedicated to her, five were first performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they...
...first concert, on Thursday evening, October 25, is dedicated to the memory of H. t. Parker, late dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript. The program consist of compositions which Mr. Parker had suggested for a chamber music concert: Mozart's Oboe Quintet, k. 370; John Alden Carpenter's String Quartet, and Brahm's Quartet in C Minor...
Last year, in a series of seven concerts, the Chardon String Quartet presented the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartet. This year their program will be varied-ranging from Haydn to Hindemith. The members of the quartet are: Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; Yves Chardon, 'cello, They are all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...