Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion...
...Thursday evening at 8.15 o'clock, the Harvard Glee Club, assisted by Harold Bauer, piano soloist, will give its initial concert of the year in Symphony Hall...
...unique Beethoven Society, the purpose of which is for the members to assemble at stated intervals to play and sing together for their own pleasure and the accruing artistic benefits. The membership includes such distinguished artists as McCormack, Kieisler, Heifetz and Rachmaninoff. Mr. Baner assisted the Club in a concert in New York last April during the Spring trip...
...religious talks will be given by the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York City. The Reverend Dr. Fosdick will speak on "The Future of the Church" on December 12 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
...concert, conducted by Serge Kenssevitsky, will start at 8 o'clock this evening...