Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visas of 17 Iron Curtainers were no longer valid, ordered the men to leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...Cannes Municipal Orchestra had ever played a single note of modern American symphonic music; even though Conductor Horenstein found his players "quick-witted and adaptable," he still had to rehearse them three times a day, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. He had waited until the day before the concert for his score of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to arrive, finally had to phone the U.S. embassy in Paris to borrow another and have it flown down. There were no mutes for the trumpets; he had to borrow felt hats to be used instead. The Casino...
...newly formed intercollegiate Symphony Orchestra, sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs and conducted by Samuel Adler 1G, will present its first concert at 8;30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theater...
...second concert is tentatively planned for later in the season...
...Bright Promise. Last week, opera was among the things they got. For his new Brooklyn Symphony's first concert...