Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first public appearance since the Symphony Hall concert in mid-December, the Band added $300 to its money-starved treasury last night, playing at the current Golden Gloves Tournament at Lowell...
Hanns's composer friends* decided to hold another all-Eisler concert in Manhattan, and engaged Town Hall for Feb. 28. Hanns promised to bring forth a new work for the occasion. It was to be called The Alien Cantata. Hanns described it modestly as "a very lyrical piece about myself...
...Hanns made no effort to challenge Government charges that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926 and that he had entered the U.S. illegally in 1941. Would Hanns be deported without benefit of further musical honors? Said a non-lyrical immigration officer: "By the time of the concert, it is quite possible...
...composer himself, who at 34 looks like an overworked undergraduate, will not be in the audience when the Met's gold curtains part this week. He will be off on a concert tour of Italy and Holland. A shy fellow, but sure of himself, Britten wasn't worried about how Peter Grimes would fare in Manhattan. Since London first heard Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in June 1945, it has been cheered 115 times, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Berlin, Budapest, translated into eight languages, and praised in all of them...
...about six months in Brooklyn, and another three years in Amityville, Long Island. For a time Britten conducted an amateur orchestra in another Long Island town, just for the fun of it. The amateurs got so they could play a Mozart symphony creditably, then began thinking about a professional concert. Britten thought that amateurs should be content to stay amateurs...