Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helsinki University of Finland's chorus of 54 voices gives a concert in Sanders Theatre Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock. It is sponsored by the Division of Music here and was made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge...
...most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not, neither does he toot, thump nor sing. How does anybody know whether he can even read music? Yet at the end of the concert it is he who takes the bows, not the laboring instrumentalists over whom he presides. Is his a job, or a racket...
This week Manhattan music lovers gawped and gloated while more than $1,000,000 worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary...
Engaged. Peter Gerald Lehman, 21, son of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman; to Peggy Lashanska Rosenbaum, 18, daughter of Concert Singer Hulda Lashanska; in Manhattan...
Nobody expects jazz musicians to play symphonies. But some high-brow concert audiences still think that symphonic musicians can play jazz. Symphonies are made to be played in concert halls for people who buy tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the moment, belongs in the jam session or the dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly...