Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for the fact that Toscanini does not want any concert to last more than an hour, arrangements so far were undetailed. It was not announced how much Toscanini would be paid, how many concerts he would conduct, or even where he would conduct them. Musical wiseacres were convinced, however, that the Toscanini-NBC broadcasts would be given on a tour which will encourage sales of his records made by RCA Victor, NBC's corporate cousin, which arranged a similar tour for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, April 27), will send Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra on another...
...with his long hair and his faulty English. Ely wanted to be an interpreter. This Son of the American Revolution passed examinations in seven languages but flunked English. When the Russian Revolution came the Culbertsons lost their estate. Father Culbertson returned to the U. S. broke. Sasha began his concert tours. Between 1921 and 1926 he made over $120,000 Some of this money he sent to his brother in Paris. Ely was studying the social sciences at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Politiques but seemed more determined to become a boulevardier and bridge shark...
...when they go home. Last week, with the help of 447 prisoners transferred from the flooded reformatory at Frankfort, Lexington's convict-patients were enlarging their athletic field for baseball and horseshoe pitching. They have a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a band. Dr. Kolb expects to develop a concert series soon. In the Lexington farm's library, magazines and newspapers are uncensored. Patients eat from chinaware, .instead of prison tinware, and have comparatively small, cozy dining rooms instead of big, dreary mess halls. They attend church if they wish. The Lexington narcotic farm had admitted...
Born. To Pianist Josef Hofmann, 61; and Mrs. Betty Short Hofmann, 30, one-time concert pianist and Hofmann pupil: a son, their third child; in Philadelphia...
...Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood...