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Source Type} Geographic history |
Family History} Olson |
Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular. By Catherine Parsons Smith.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Excerpt from page 36:
Several other attempts at organizing a professional orchestra proved abortive.
In March 1892, an orchestra of twenty men under conductor Dion Romandy,
director of the house orchestra at the Palace Saloon, offered a Sunday evening concert, intended
as the first of a series. The series seems never to have reached a second performance.
Romandy's group was very well received when it played at a reception for the winter graduating class
at Los Angeles High School at about the same time: "They had the Hungarian Orchestra, or
Romandy's Orchestra. Oh! They played perfectly lovely. Romandy is absolutely
grand with a violin in his hand. He has not played very much in concerts or anything like that
so people do not know how grand he is. They used to play in the Palace' Saloon in the Wilson Block,
but now they have given that up. In the orchestra are Romandy and another violinist, a clarinet
and Stanzione, with the grandest flute I ever heard in my life."
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by} Karen Hancock |
Date Updated} 20 Jul 2023
Date Created} 22 Aug 2010 |
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