Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accompanied Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret to Constitution Hall for a concert by the Don Cossack Chorus (whose members had been carefully investigated by the Secret Service and duly pronounced White Russians). The President slipped out before the intermission, went to the Statler Hotel to address a savings bond rally. As he left for the concert again he said: "I've got to escort them [Mrs. Truman and Margaret] home. What I mean is, I have to escort them to the White House. There's a decided distinction and a difference...
...crowed NBC's General David Sarnoff: "What a joy it is that this can be done while our beloved maestro is still a young man." And with that, Arturo Toscanini, who will be 81 this week, raised his baton, and led the NBC Symphony into its first televised concert...
First stop for the Club on its tour will be Rochester, where the chorus will join the Rochester Civic Symphony under Guy Fraser Harrison for an Easter Sunday concert...
...trip to Niagara Falls plus a debutante dance after the concert will feature the Club's stay in Buffalo on Wednesday, March 31. Final concerts of the tour are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3, in Petham, New York, and Irvington, New Jersey...
Last night's Glee Club concert in Sanders Theater was an unfortunate demonstration of the futility of good singing when pitted against incompetent management of a program. The evening could have been the outstanding musical achievement at Harvard this year if the excellent work of the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and soloists had been supported by intelligent programming and handling of the orchestra. That G. Wallace Woodworth '24 did not offer this support was a major disappointment...