Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cage's sounds are slowly catching on with concert performers, two or three of whom have already learned how to jimmy bolts and screws among the strings of their own pianos. Most music lovers are still doubtful. Explains Cage: "People want the newest thing in their houses and automobiles, but in the arts the newest thing seems to be too frightening...
Cried one hoarse but happy observer-Arturo Toscanini-as he shuffled from his aisle-seat listening post in Studio 8H: "Now here is a conductor-a good conductor." Last week, after Guido had finished his first NBC Symphony concert, listeners agreed...
...slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
Every regular concert goer in Cambridge has seen a big, smiling, blue-eyed, old lady take her seat in the front row at Sanders Theater and, after removing a flowered, hat, spread a pink and blue robe over her knees. She listens to the music with her hearing aid held out in front of her and applauds generously with arms outstretched. If it is a Boston Symphony concert, you will see Koussevitzky come down from the podium to shake hands with her. If she is giving the concert herself, which is probably the case, you will watch...
...fulfillment of these two aims lies the greatness of Mrs. Coolidge's life work. Under the auspices of the Foundation, the world's finest musicians have been able to present to attentive audiences music of their own choice whose special appeal would generally exclude it from the concert-manager system. Alexander Schneider's performances throughout the country, as well as at Harvard, of Bach's Six Snotaas for Unaccompanied Violin are examples of her impartial patronage. --Herbert P. Gleason