Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replied that her only art lay in moving her legs; but that she liked dancing so well that she intended to make it her life work. "My poor, dear teacher," she said, with little trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle. Lezandre and I have little in common in the plot of the present performance, we are the best of friends, and intend to work together...
Among the many events planned for the coming season, a newly innovated trip to Smith College to sing with the Smith Glee Club is outstanding. Before this trip, which will take place on January 4, a joint concert is planned for the Harvard Glee Club, the Yale Glee Club and the Harvard Instrumental Club on the night preceding the Yale game...
...Five concerts are planned for the fall season, a joint concert with the Glee Club at Yale and that at Brattle Hall being the high points in preparation for the Christmas tour...
...popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant...
...three years Ernestine Schumann-Heink has been exceedingly busy bidding farewell to her public-concert, operatic, radio. Last spring, sailing for Europe, she announced herself as definitely "through." Teaching was to be her sole occupation. Last week she returned from Europe, limping down the gangplank on a sprained ankle, grinning her great grin. Yes, she told reporters, she was going West. Sound cinemas provided another way for great singers to sing. Three companies had made her offers...