Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes of other chieftains who wanted no interference with their own ambitions and intrigues, elected Green president of the A.F.L. Four days later, he enjoyed one of the big moments of his life-Coshocton welcomed him home with red flares, whistles and a parade led by the Civic Concert and Salvation Army bands...
...last symphony concert of the season in the Dutch resort city of Scheveningen. Suddenly, during a Bach violin concerto, Soloist Sam Swaap started scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got back on the track. After him on the program came French Pianist Janine Weill. She got midway through the last movement of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 4, then her fingers became riveted to the keys. The orchestra struggled on by itself for 40 bars before Madame Weill fell...
Next morning, the Scheveningen concert was the talk of The Netherlands. Indignant Dutch critics accused Conductor Ignaz Neumark and his 86 state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby...
...last measures of a program that was sometimes mannered, but more often brilliant, one was convinced again that some things do not change. For among the more notable characteristics of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, now in its sixty-seventh season, is its continuity of quality from the closing concert of the previous year to the opening of the next. This season finds New York again without a permanent leader, while Chicago is introduced to that efficient but cold orchestra builder, Artur Rodzinski. Boston audiences, however, find the same faces and the same music...
...mark for the remainder of the season to aim at, Dr. Koussevitzky's performance of Hindemith's moving symphony, "Mathis der Maler," was a unique marriage of a composer's conception and an orchestra's performance. Hindemith's re-creation of Matthias' paintings from the Isenheim Alter, the Angelic Concert," the "Entombment," and the "Temptation of St. Anthony," in sound brings out all the unearthly power of the artist's work and a hint of his personal distractions and struggles. In Dr. Koussevitzky's hands, the intense score glowed and shuddered almost hypnotically until the final great D-flat Major...