Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dismal as was the failure of the League of Nations, democratic thinkers answered these questions by proposing a new concert of nations, stronger than the League, not quite so tight...
Last week when Marcel Tabuteau sat out in front of the orchestra at a Manhattan concert and soloed in Mozart's Quartet in F Major for Oboe and Strings, hard-boiled critics threw kisses at the ceiling, and at the end of the first movement the audience cheered. Marcel Tabuteau grinned uneasily, but he did not rise to acknowledge the applause. When it was all over he boosted himself out of his chair and hobbled off the stage. Marcel Tabuteau had the gout. For two weeks, on tour, he had been traveling in wheel chairs, ambulances, on crutches...
...musical gourmets. Caviar from the very finest of sturgeons is the chamber music produced by the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's top-ranking string ensemble. To gobble up this treat last fortnight Manhattan's hungriest musical highbrows gathered in Town Hall to hear the first concert of the New Friends of Music's annual chamber-music series...
...woman who booped mightily through the brass coils of a big French horn. When she had finished the horn part of Mozart's Quintet in E Flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert. The young woman's name was Ellen Stone, and playing with such topnotchers as the Budapest Quartet bothered her no whit, for she is the best woman French horn player in the world...
Since previous concerts of the Stradivarius Quartet have been vastly overcrowded, it will be necessary to limit the attendance at the next concert, in Fogg Museum on Thursday, November...