Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...
Dusolina was first of the young Gianninis to reach the headlines. At 19 she was suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case in a Manhattan concert. Critics raved over the warm beauty of her voice, its effortless production. Dusolina made $50,000 that year (1923), went on to fresh triumphs in Italy, Germany, Austria. The Metropolitan Opera engaged her last year...
...good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...
After the battle the classes will then parade to the baseball field and witness the Yale baseball game at 3:30 o'clock. In the evening the Pierian Sodality and the Glee Club will give a concert concluding the official program...
Beginning at 8.15 o'clock tonight, a concert of unfamiliar music will be presented by the Harvard Music Club in Paine Hall. Two works will be played in memory of eminent composers who died this year: "Mythes" for violin and piano by Szymanowski and three pieces for piano and oboe by Foote...