Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next Tuesday, September 30, at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Concert Hall, the first of the Chamber concerts, given through the generosity and interest of Mrs. Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge, will be held. It will be one of the best opportunities of the year for music lovers of the University to indulge their taste...
...first rehearsal of the Instrumental Clubs will be held on October 2nd. This date was set in order that the members of the clubs might have a full month of training before the annual Princeton concert, which will take place the night before the Princeton game. The Yale concert will be given at New Haven and will consist of a week-end trip including the game and the dances the night before the game...
...Worcester, Lowell, and Northampton are included, and, in addition, arrangements are being completed for a Southern trip to be taken during the Eastern recess. A striking feature of this year's season is that all graduates or others interested may obtain the services of the Instrumental Clubs for a concert in their home town or city...
...Berlin some weeks ago, Roland Hayes, Negro tenor (TIME, Oct. 8), gave a concert. To Germans, black men are "colonials"; they encountered them in the French line during the War; more recently, in the Ruhr. Learning that a member of this unpopular race was to appear publicly in their midst, Berliners were indignant. Protests were made to the American Ambassador against the "impertinence" of permitting a Negro to be heard on the concert stage, against the lèst majesté of offering musically scrupulous Berlin the tunes of the Georgia cotton-pickers. Hayes appeared. He sang his first number...
...Berkeley, Calif., the University summer music session was officially closed by a concert of Henry Cowell's funny ultra-modern oddities, presented in Wheeler Hall by the Berkeley Greek Theatre Management. The titles read: Amiable Conversation, What's This, Advertisements, Piece for Piano With Strings. The performance was punctuated by snickers and guffaws on the part of the learned audience. This was just what Cowell tried to achieve. It is easy enough, he believes, to write music that will draw tears out of the emotional listener, but few composers have succeeded in pulling a laugh. Not even jazz...