Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest String Quartet returns for the first time this term to Sanders Theater at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Sponsored by the Pierian Sodality and the Harvard and Radcliffe Orchestras, the concert will include Mozart's G Major Quartet, K 387; Hindemith's Quartet Op. 22, number three; Brahms A Minor Quartet Op. 51, number...
...story is about a music-hating man (Douglas) married to a would-be concert soprano (Celeste Holm). All is dandy until she begins a singing career. In Douglas' hour of agony, who should happen along but a famous opera star (Miss Darnell) who discovers that he has a great voice, and persuades him to regain control of the family by singing in concerts and opera himself...
Arriving in Manhattan, Britain's crusty old (70) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham had undergone no sea change. He planned a concert and lecture tour in the U.S. and Canada, including four stops in Texas, where, he intoned, "Western culture has arrived at its highest peak." Having disposed of these kind words, he turned on modern classical music: "A continuous succession of promissory notes. Composers are always promising but only keep on promising." What about bebop? Snapped Sir Thomas: " What the devil is that...
...Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm's Aftonbladet printed a special eight-page jazz extra complete with highbrow criticism, including one article comparing Armstrong's art with that of Ernest Hemingway...
Great credit is due to William F. Russell 3G, who is conducting the Harvard Glee Club while Professor G. Wallace Woodworth is on his sabbatical. The Glee Club began the concert with its serious songs sung adequately but without spirit. When they moved to the second part of the program, however, they began to enjoy themselves and their singing showed it. "Gandeamus," College Medley was easily the high point of the evening as far as enthusiasm, tone, and vocal excellence was concerned. Two solos, a trio, and a quartet were mixed into the ensemble in this number, and the piece...