FACE FOURTEEN
498 Student Tickets
Left for Concert
Students mobbed the Tletzel
Union desk yesterday afternoon
as disti ibution of tickets for the
Philadelphia Orchestra started.
Because of the large number of
students waiting in line, distribu
tion started at 12 30 pm., half an
hour earlier than scheduled. By
the end of the first hour, 1400
tickets had been given out.
At the close of distribution
yesterday afternoon 3500 of the
4000 student tickets had been
distributed. The remaining 498
tickets will be available at 9
this morning.
Non-student tickets will go on
sale at 0 tomonow morning. They
will cost $1 25
The concert, eleventh in this
vcai’s Artist Senes, will be held
kt 0 30 p m. Saturday, in Recrea
tion Hall
The orchestra, under the direc
tion of Eugene Ormandy, will
perform Bach’s Chaconne; Bee
thoven's Symphony No. 2. in D
mam. Op 36; Debussv's Prelude
to “The Afternoon of a Faun”-
and Stiavmsky, Suite from “The
Fu child.”
Now in its 58th year, the or
chestra gave its first performance
on Friday evening. Nov. 16. 1000
at the Aeademv of Music, Phda
delnhia The rinector was Fritz
R< heel
The orchestra gave six con
certs during the first season and
(•'-cumulated a $14,000 deficit.
During their second season it
ran its deficit to $72,000.
Carl Pohlig succeeded Schee! as
conductor in'l9o7 It was Pohlig
rhn established standards of pc-r
-f irmanee and brought such greats
as Sergei Rachmaninoff to the or-
I’n-strn. Rachmaninoff appeared
manv times as pianist, composer
and conductor
To the orchestra's 13th season
it was headed by Leopold Sto
kowski It was Stokowski who
championed new music and anion"
I> s American firsts are Strauss’
Alpine Symnhonv, 1916; Rach
maninoff's “The Bells,’’ 1920; Str"-
vnskv's “Le Sncrc du Printenips,”
IP?'* and “Oedinus Rex,” 1931.
Stokowski had considerable
assistance in his conduciorial
duties Bfter 1926. Some of those
invited to share the podium dur-
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siderable afternoon sunshine.
• , Temperatures will be in the 30’s
ing the next decade were Frit* a) j dBV( reac h in g- an afternoon
Reiner, Eugene Ormandy end ;high of 38 degrees. It will be
Jose liurbi. : clear and slightly colder tonight
In 1936 the decision was made with a low temperature of 23.
to replace Stokowski. Ormandy! The combined effect of a storm
was given a 3-year contract, but system moving eastward from the
in 1938-39 he was signed for five western Great Plains and mois
years with the additional title of;ture flowing northward from the
music director. He has been the Gulf of Mexico will result in.
orchestra's permanent conductor clouds and rain by tomorrow
|and music director ever since. afternoon.
Temperature Drop
Will Precede Rain
Sunny and a little colder weath-
er will prevail today with con-
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band regardless of make or condition when you
buy a new metal or expansion band.
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