Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public knowledge that most of the great musicians who have gone to Japan from Europe and America have gone under the auspices of the Prince. He it was who organized Japan's first symphony concert. He has given and sponsored free public concerts, has caused concerts to be broadcasted from the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. Altogether, the advancement of music in Japan in recent years is ascribed largely to his enthusiasm...
...planned a great musical festival for next Spring, one that was to become an annual event. When the earthquake was rocking Tokyo, the Prince was on an express train thither-bound. But it was 19 days before he arrived to find the Imperial Theatre in ruins and his own concert hall partly demolished. Nevertheless, the Prince does not despair of his festival and is at present endeavoring to engage American artists...
This evening the concert above reviewed will be repeated...
...Monteux is a curious mixture. As conductor, he is remarkably even, polished un "temperamental;" as program maker he is proving himself brilliant but erratic. At Friday afternoon's concert he played what in most cities would be an exceptional program, including Dukas and Ravel, a bit of Wagner, a piece by John Knowles Paine, and the Brahms second concerto. Next week he purposes to present a concert almost as usual, save for one factor, and certainly as interesting, as today's was interesting. Beethoven's hackneyed, if beautiful, Egmont overture, Schumann's Symphony in D minor, than which there...
...close, Mr. Monteux played Ravel's "Choreographic Poem" the Waltz, with an understanding and sympathy which wholly redeemed the less interesting parts of the concert. Ravel is beyond description--certainly the master-satirist of music. Humor, subtlety, musical virtuosity; all are his. Listening, the Boston audience ponders solemnly, frowning on those who see the point...