Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock tonight the first public Yard concert of the year by the Harvard Glee Club will take place on the steps of Widener Library. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music and Director of the Glee Club, will conduct...
...afternoon of Class Day and Norman L. Cahners '36 will be in charge at Soldiers Field. H. John Adzigian '36 will be responsible for the Class Day supper in the Houses, and, finally, Braman H. Gibbs '36 will be in charge of seeing that the Instrumental and Glee Club concert, to be held in the House Quadrangle at 8.15 o'clock on Class Day eve, is run off smoothly...
...season with a deficit. Great was the stew among Marshall Fielders until William Burnell Towsley came forth with a suggestion. Mr. Towsley liked to exercise his resounding bass voice. He knew other Marshall Field employes who sang, suggested a Marshall Field Choral Society which might give a concert, raise funds to clear another baseball season. The Marshall Field baseball team has long been forgotten. The Marshall Field & Company Choral Society gave its 30th annual concert last week as an established musical organization...
Scene was the big Chicago Auditorium with some 200 Marshall Fielders massed on the stage. Fifty-four Chicago Symphony men were there as assistants. At Edgar Nelson conducted, got the concert off to a rousing start with the Hail Abode from Tannhaüser. Second half of the program was devoted to a concert arrangement of Cavalleria Rusticana in which the Chorus outshone Helen Jepsor of the Metropolitan Opera, whose voice was too pallid for the big dramatic aria. She made her chief impression with her shimmering blonde hair, her tight-fitting green gown, the way she made her exit...
...have kept pace with the oldtime bassos. Sarah J. Grimes still sells hats, Anna E. Bolton was retired lately from the china department. Missing at last week's performance was Tenor Carl Kjellberg, the Chorus librarian who works in the supply room. So excited was he about the concert that he had a stroke just before the curtain rose, had to be hospitalized. While there he received a letter from Founder Towsley, who makes a practice of writing to every chorister who is ill. Many of his singers have better voices than jobs in the store...