Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British co-operation and that this would be followed by devaluation of the lira, Swiss franc, Dutch guilder, etc. Had Germany known what was coming, Dictator Hitler might have managed to join in and tell the German people that their mark was being devalued in an international concert of Economic Disarmament to which the Fatherland had been admitted with "equality" and "honor." Instead, according to Berlin observers, Herr Hitler felt last week that Dr. Schacht had permitted the Reich to be left momentarily high & dry with the mark overvalued and no way of devaluing it without losing Nazi face before...
Deviating from its former policy of presenting all kinds of classical music, the club this year is restricting its programs to works not ordinarily heard from the concert platform, including music of little known medieval and Renaissance composers, works by great authors which are seldom performed, modern music which is not frequently heard, and student compositions...
...first of the eight concerts by the Boston Symphony in its Sanders Theatre series will be given tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The program is the same as that given last week-end in Boston; but that does not detract from its charms. The Haydn Symphony in B flat (no. 102) which opens the concert is a masterpiece--Haydn at his very best. It is followed by Debussy's three descriptive sketches, "La Mer," and by Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...Juan," by Richard Strauss is also on the program. Written in 1887-88, it portrays not Byron's, but Nicolaus Lenau's Don Juan--a hero who longed for the ideal woman and failed to find her. Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is a fitting close to this fine concert...
...music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster,'' to give a concert for His Majesty's dinner guests at Buckingham Palace. That Mrs. Simpson was traveling with the King was officially announced by the Court Circular...