Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna Mandolin Orchestra Society gave a concert in Berlin to a crowded auditorium. The concert was described as exquisite. It is the purpose of the Society to demonstrate that the mandolin, far from being necessarily only a toy, is a serious, dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which...
Paderewski's return to the Paris concert stage was a jour de fete. Thousands thronged his way to the theatre, thousands besieged him as he concluded his first performance, a benefit affair...
Stransky traveled extensively during the Summer. He conducted orchestras in various parts of Spain. He directed a symphony concert at Palma in the Balearic Isles, where he found an orchestra of 27 men awaiting him. With this small band he played a program for which at the Philharmonic he would have had 80 musicians...
...music. The radio transmits tone with a great fidelity, and important singers and instrumentalists were glad to perform for the new wonder. Philosophers saw splendid things for music in this nightly projection of high refinements of the art into the innumerable radio-owning homes of non-concert-going people. But the radio programs have sadly deteriorated in quality. This has followed from the circumstance that the great radio companies find themselves confronted with a singular problem...
...funny men, the Scholar drags himself to Broadway to inspect the latest models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...