Word: concert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Helen Howe, daughter of M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, well-known editor and biographer, will entertain listeners this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Her program, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts will be a recital of monologues, given for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony League of Cambridge. Every year a series of annual presentations is arranged and offered by the citizens of Cambridge, with the aid of the University, for the benefit of the League...
...baton whisked into the air last week, cut a circle or two to release the sombre sounds of Schumann's Manfred overture and in Manhattan an important audience settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began...
Like the Italian Toscanini, the Russian Stokowski chose German music. Like Toscanini with his Beethoven, Stokowski has always had unseen powers over Brahms' First Symphony. Brahms then, followed by worthy excerpts from the Wagnerian Ring made of his first concert a surging translucent affair...
Four pieces which have never been sung with an orchestra accompaniment before an audience in the United States will be given by the Harvard Glee Club on December 12 at Symphony Hall in Boston. This concert is one of a series which is to be presented this season by the organization. The pieces which have never before been publicly performed are as follows...
...literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Way Home, were commercial failures. Ultima...