Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra, which--will give its second Sanders Theatre concert of the season this evening at 8 o'clock will have for its soloist, Mr. Roland Hayes, the negro tenor who recently returned from the second of two successful concert tours abroad...
...Europe he sang in Paris, Vienna, Rome, and Berlin. In addition to a regular concert in London, he sang for King George at the latter's special request. He is a graduate of Fisk University near Nashville, Tennessee, and trained his voice in Boston under the instruction of Mr. Arthur Hubbard...
...large group of jazz compositions ranging from the archaic Alexander's Ragtime Band to the almost contemporary Do It Again. This is the first time, to the present reviewer's knowledge, that a serious artist, and one of the most scholarly sort, has included in a formal concert the sliding, slippery rhythms of jazz. The famed popular composer, Arthur Gershwin, was at the piano for the "modern American" group. That vouched for the jazzy authenticity of the piano rhythms. But how did a severely schooled soprano like Eva Gauthier among such rhythmic perversities? She did surprisingly well...
...costs consist largely of salary to musicians. The new union schedule has added $22,248 to the Philharmonic payroll. The scale is a complicated affair with different rates for concert, opera and ordinary theatres, with different rates also for in-town and out-of-town playing, with heavy charges for overtime in the way of rehearsals...
Meanwhile, the prices of concert seats have remained stationary. It is believed, probably quite correctly, that symphony concert box office rates reached the high limit long ago, that any increase would cause a disproportionate falling off in attendance. Occupants of orchestra and box chairs at the Metropolitan or Chicago Opera Company are moneyed people. But concert halls are filled with comparatively poor folk, and simple esthetics do not attract the wealthy strongly enough to fill high-priced stalls...