Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post as Curator of the Army Medical Museum. ¶ Max Sasanoff, until some months ago, was an inmate of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Now he is in Washington to paint a portrait of President Coolidge. Sasanoff, a Russo-Italian by birth, early attained some reputation as a concert singer. He came to this country, fell in with counterfeiters, was apprehended, convicted, sentenced to Atlanta for three years. While in Atlanta, he attracted attention by painting in the penitentiary chapel a remarkable picture of Christ ministering to the poor. It was claimed that the counterfeiters had forced him to work...
Several thousand gaily attired Class Day merry-makers filled the Yard from the steps of Widener to Appleton Chapel last night, when the Glee Club gave its Class Day concert. The lanterns enhanced the pageantry of the celebration as the crowd stood for nearly an hour until the last college song ended the program, performed by about 50 men on the broad steps, marked the end of the Glee Club season and was one of the features of the evening's festivities...
...well as a graduate.of Mercersburg. She also laid the cornerstone of a new chapel; heard the class ode, the music of which was written by John; heard him receive the fourth prize in English theme writing; heard him give one of eight honorary orations on Perseverance; heard a concert by the Academy Mandolin and Glee Clubs, in the latter of which John sang first bass; heard him given honorable mention as one of the class (of 81) who had been the best influence in the School...
...audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Forty thousand attended the first concert. A new stand and sounding board, the gift of Elkan Naumberg, sends the sound for hundreds of yards. The expenses are borne by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim and Mr. and Mrs. Murry Guggenheim. The compositions range from the Processional from Wagner's Parsifal to the Swedish Coronation March...
Seven artists constituted the audience of a remarkable concert at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia. Two pianists played selections unknown to the artists, who promptly set down their impressions in pastels. Ten minutes was allowed for the sketch, the piece played again, and five minutes allowed for corrections. From Salome all seven were inspired to use warm colors. The finale trio from Rosenkavalier was futuristically interpreted in splotches of bold color...