Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the leadership of Karl G. Kohn '48 and Margaret Sherman '50, the combined clubs have held regular monthly concerts of chamber music. Many of these have included such guest artists as Phyllis Curtin, soprano, and Lukas Foss, pianist. In addition, the Intercollegiate Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Samuel Adler, gave a concert in March at which works by contemporary composers were performed. The Orchestra included many of the most capable performers from colleges in the Boston area...
...clubs presented a concert of choral music by the Bach Cantata Club assisted by the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Van Slyck '46. Most recently, the clubs gave a concert of modern chamber and choral music. The chorus, directed by Assistant Professor Irving Fine, one of the faculty advisers of the clubs, sang two of his compositions and one by Gordon Binkerd, a teaching fellow in the Music Department. During the year the clubs also provided a complete performance of Bach's Musical Offering under the direction of David G. Hughes '47 and a lecture on twelve tone music...
Members of the Glee Club will present the third and last in this year's series of spring Yard concerts tonight at 7 p.m. on the steps of Widener Library. Listeners who are University members will also have their last chance to join in the traditional singing of football songs after the concert...
...Since January, the pianists have been trying to get out of their contracts with Manager Edwin Fadiman (Clifton's brother), who, they claim, gets too big a cut of the receipts. The receipts were nothing to trifle with; last year the quartet made close to $240,000 in concert tours, radio and recordings...
...Many Concert Tours...