Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band portion of yesterday's concert, with all its good points, was nearly eclipsed by the appearance of five suspendered individuals known as "Die Wursthausischen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn-Musikanten" who provided by far the best entertainment of the afternoon with a post-intermission selection of beer music in true Austrian style, fairly bringing down the house. Known otherwise as "The Hungry Five," these gentlemen sported the thickest of gutterel accents, the nattiest of knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like...
...This threat will not hamper the program of the Jubilee,: said Hazel, pointing out that the only outdoor event was the Glee Club concert Friday evening on Widener steps. There are plans to move this to Sanders Theater in case of bad weather...
...rest of the program includes an informal dance from 9 to 1 o'clock tonight in Memorial Hall to the music of Fred Guerra and 13 stalwarts, a formal tomorrow in the Union with the musical assistance of Larry Green and Skip Towne and their orchestras, and a Band Concert Sunday afternoon. Yard room permission has been extended both nights until the dances begin...
...sung in monotones by corrupt priests in faraway places. But this is a philosophy; it has a profound message for the initiate and plenty of sex for young and old. As a result of all this drivel, the Missa has been turned in finale furioso of the concert stage and it has been divorced, to as great a degree as possible, from any real point that it has. Its religious message, to use the vile phrase, has been swapped for a fistful of Romantic brotherhood of man cliches...
...most music lovers, Toscanini already comes closer to the secrets than anyone before him. He does his best to ignore the legend of his own greatness, but he knows that it is around. At a rehearsal of his all-Debussy concert a month ago, he was flushed with a fever of 102 degrees. His friends tried to persuade the old man not to conduct, but he was insistent. Said he, as he trudged out to the podium: "Sometimes I must act like Toscanini...