Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scores of towns where great orchestral music was completely unknown. While still in his 20's the young conductor learned the value of diplomacy, the power of a bouquet. He kept peace among his jealous singers. He made friends with Andrew Carnegie who built Manhattan's big concert hall. When visiting Carnegie in Scotland he met Maine's James G. Elaine and soon after married Elaine's Daughter Margaret...
...accustomed, then, to pianists who pounded in heavy Germanic fashion. Chopin's style was delicate and subtle, more suited to his own music than to the Titans he sometimes tried to interpret. Vienna refused to recognize him when he went there at 20. Next year his first Paris concert failed to pay expenses...
...accordance with their annual custom, the Glee Club together with the Radcliffe Choral Society will present two concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this spring. This group of 300 singers will offer Handel's "Solomon" on Tuesday evening, April 30, at 8.00 o'clock, and Bach's lengthy "Mass in B Minor" on Sunday, May 5. The latter concert will be presented in two sessions, the first part of the concert starting at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon and the second at 8.30 o'clock in the evening. In addition, five prominent vocalists will render solos at the performance...
...concert will be given by the Kolisch Quartet of Vienna tomorrow at 8.15 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, and not, as previously announced, in Paine Hall. Free tickets may be obtained at the Music Building today and tomorrow...
...Horowitz stormed Berlin, then made a tour of Europe. After his debut in Manhattan in 1928, U. S. reporters tried hard to dramatize him but the pianist who could sparkle so on the concert platform proved to be an excessively shy person offstage. Money in his pocket led him to many a naive taste but none worth headlines. He took to wearing pink and red shirts, fussed about his tailoring. In London he bought a Rolls-Royce, which still impresses him greatly. Until lately he has taken little pains with his English...