Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From all reports, the season of "Pops" concerts now underway at Symphony Hall is a huge success. Capacity audiences composed of varying types of music-lovers, gourmets, and gourmands, are turning up each night; and the numerous charity an benefit evenings have proved highly satisfactory. Harvard Night went off very smoothly and is to be followed by a Radcliffe program on Wednesday. Mr. Fiedler, hard put to it to find music befitting the occasion, has nobly come forth with the new orchestral version of Professor Bill's Two Jazz Studies as well as a new work, "Pirates' Island", by Mabel...
...evening is devoted to more serious numbers and this week, there is to be a Schubert-Tchaikovsky-Wagner program with Elizabeth Travis as soloist in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Surely, this is an occasion which romantically-minded souls should not miss. Monday evenings is gypsy night -- for the benefit, oddly enough, of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The members of this worthy institution must have a craving for this type of music for every number on the program has a authentic gypsy flavor. Possibly, the management will make the evening complete by placing dark-skinned fortune-tellers...
...Hall bedlam would have been let loose again, except for the little white-haired Maestro. He bowed gravely to his wildly-cheering audience, wheeled on his podium, rapped smartly for attention. Toscanini was giving his last U. S. concert not for acclaim, not for money but for the benefit of the Orchestra which has played for him during the past eleven seasons. Once his baton was raised he became the humble servant of Beethoven and Wagner, began by making the first Leonore overture seem so buoyant and tuneful that it was hard to regard him as a conductor nearing...
When Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg began baying on the trail of recipients of big AAA benefit payments. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tossed out a few dry bones of figures-without-names which by no means satisfied the hunger of the Michigan GOPossibility (TIME, April 20). Last week the Senate's Democratic majority decided that it was the better part of politics to let Senator Vandenberg have his resolution directing the Department of Agriculture to furnish names of all those who had received AAA payments of $10,000 or more per year...
...soloist in his "Rhapsody in Blue" as well as in his "Concerto for Pianoforte in F". What is more, he will conduct a suite of selections from "Porgy and Bess" which has been such an unqualified success both here and in New York. The concert, incidentally, is for the benefit of the Christopher Shop...