Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producing pitch-pipes, whacking on merchandise with wooden spoons. Clerks tried to interest them in bargains. Customers tittered and asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons who had subscribed $59,340 toward the $70,000 deficit. At the concert, motherly Mrs. Stock laughed until she wheezed. She had never known that her Frederick and his men could clown so. For one act the bassoon choir came out like...
Inspired by the last-minute news that "Doc" came back last night, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society opened their first joint spring concert, yesterday afternoon at Symphony Hall, in the traditional manner with a study from a recognized master: Mozart. The special chorus from Harvard and Mr. Lautner, tenor, deserve to be complimented for the spontaneity of their interpretation of his choruses for Freemasons...
...Woodworth, we congratulate especially on the success of this concert. With the enthusiastic audience, we venture to hope that it may become an annual treat...
...until it is now universally accepted. The work of the Glee Club in this line will naturally continue, but as an educator it will no longer constitute such an essential factor. The public, in fact, is looking for a little more from the Harvard Glee Club than its individual concert programs. This expectation the Glee Club may fulfill by familiarizing the musical world with the great choral works...
That this can only be accomplished with the cooperation of a woman's chorus and a full orchestra is fairly obvious. By bringing the Glee Club together again with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a special concert, Mr. Woodworth is at once broadening the scope of the Glee Club's repertoire and providing his audience with a program of classical and modern choral works seldom heard. It is an experiment which should serve as a precedent...