Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which it dates from the time that Richard Allen left the white Methodist Church...
...musical life of London in 1888 had more Maggie Moores, Mile. Colombatis and Mme Belle Coles, forgotten today, than Pattis, Nordicas, Richters. Corno di Bassetto, busy with political agitating, missed a new Dvorak symphony and a concert by Harold Bauer (who played the violin for the first ten years of his career before becoming a pianist). Shaw on Patti: There has not yet been witnessed a dramatic situation so tragic that Madame Patti would not get up in the middle of it to bow and smile if somebody accidentally sprung his opera hat. She is simply a marvelous Christy Minstrel...
Symphony Hall in Boston opens its doors tomorrow afternoon to the start of another concert season by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program, which is to be repeated the following night, consists of two well known works: the "Eroica" or Third Symphony of Beethoven, and the Second Symphony of the Finnish composer Jan Sibelius...
...former is one of the most famous of all orchestral compositions and has become one of the standard concert pieces for such an occasion as the opening of a musical year. Originally dedicated to Napoleon the Consul, it lost that inscription when the composer thought that the ambitious Corsican had presumed too much when he titled himself Napoleon the Emperor. Its "heroic" qualities have survived both in the magnificent music and in the fitting name "Eroica," and the performances under Koussevitzky should more than do justice to the great score...
...concerts are divided into two groups of six, beginning on Monday evening November 1, and for five Mondays thereafter, and the second series starting on March 7th and continuing for five weeks thereafter, except that one concert will be on Friday, April 1, instead of the following Monday...