Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agenda stands a spring concert featuring excerpts from Montoverdi's little-known opera, "II Ritorno d'Ullisse in Patria," and Pureell's "The Faery Queen." Plans will also be laid for periodic concerts of student compositions...
...last week Edward Sienkiewicz, camp inmate no longer, had finished one series of radio recitals and was starting another by popular demand. Next week he will give a concert at Santiago's snooty Union Club. The University of Chile has asked him to appear as soloist next season with the Santiago Symphony...
Seams & Dreams. For one thing, he really hated concert tours: trains and boats almost invariably made him sick. Besides suffering from stage fright, he had a good deal of trouble with his clothes: buttons popped, belts burst, seams split. And for years he was tortured by a recurrent nightmare-that the orchestra would begin while he was still dressing for the concert. In the dream, he never got to the piano in time...
Larger audiences were hardly better. Bauer remembers being unnerved at one U.S. concert by a vendor's cries of "Peanuts! Popcorn!" Once, in Boston, he suddenly felt that no one was listening to him: the audience had spotted Paderewski in the hall. Another time, on his way to the concert, he was accosted by a Salvation Army lassie who wanted him to give it all up. "Don't do it, brother!" she cried. "Don't lead those poor people into sin . . . with the arts of Satan...
Born. To Jascha Heifetz, 47, Russian-born concert violinist, and second wife Frances Spiegelberg, 37: their first child a son; in Hollywood. Name: Joseph.' Weight...