Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rugged men of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had just played seven concerts in eight days, but when Conductor Leonard Bernstein called for volunteers, 35 stepped forward. Crowded into two dusty buses, they crossed the Negeb desert to give the battle-scarred Old Testament town of Beersheba the first symphony concert of its history...
Impertinent Obbligato. Since the Israel Philharmonic played Hatikvah (the Jewish national anthem) at the inaugural of the State of Israel in May, the orchestra has given 70 concerts, 23 of them on the road. Actually the orchestra is older than the state; it was known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra when Arturo Toscanini led its first performance twelve years ago. Tel Aviv's Ohel Shem hall, where the orchestra usually plays, holds only 1,100. There the orchestra repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent...
This week, Lennie Bernstein finished his eighth week as guest conductor, and made ready to return to Manhattan in time to attend the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's benefit concert for the Israel orchestra on Dec. 7. He had enjoyed every minute of his second season of sashaying around Israel. Said he: "I really thought I was bringing Mozart to the desert. But I found it already there...
...Dixieland jazz band will present a free concert in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The group of eight plays in the old Dixieland style, improvising on New Orients and later Chicago standards...
Five Harvard students will join a Wellesley girl and students from Milton Academy and Belmont Hill in a free concert of Dixieland jazz at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lowell Junior Common Room. If they draw a large crowd, the students plan additional concerts in an effort to stimulate jazz at Harvard...