Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense of their river, with "Save the Saugatuck" their watchword. To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees. While Writers Stuart Chase and Deems Taylor protested, Fiddler Jascha Heifetz gave a "Save the Saugatuck" concert, devoted its proceeds to the cause...
Serge Prokofieff (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Russian composer-pianist in a concert of his own works by short wave from Moscow...
...Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre...
Nelson Eddy (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-Red) returns to the cast of the Chase & Sanborn Hour from concert tour. Guest star: John Barrymore...
...years ago, when Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and 114 other highly paid opera stars and concert artists formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller...