Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outdoor symphony concerts in New York's Stadium have been a summer feature for several years. They are announced in increasing elaboration for the coming warm months. The Stadium concerts have demonstrated the merits of the improved sounding boards. In the front seats, perhaps in the front half of the audience, the volume orchestral tone comes in about the same ringing fullness that you get in a concert hall. In the first several rows you do not get the deafening ill-balance that you get in a similar position in an auditorium. The distant rumbling of street cars...
...program of the regular "Pops" concert this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in Boston follows: 1. "Entrance of the Gladiators" Fucik 2. Overture to "Jeanne d'Arc" Verdi 3. Waltz, "Tres Jolie" Waldteufel 4. Fantasia, "Romeo and Juliet" Gounod 5. Prelude to "The Mastersingers" Wagner 6. Flute Solo, "Woodland Stream," (Arthur Brooke) Wetzger 7. Waltz, "Souvenir" Krogmann 8. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tachaikovsky 9. Overture to "Mignon" Thomas 10. Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach 11. March "King Cotton" Sousa
Following is the program for tonight's pops concert at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall Boston: 1. March from "Tannhauser" Wagner 2. Overture to "La Gazza Ladra" Rossin 3. Waltz, "Vienna Blood" Strauss 4. Fantasia, "Othello" Verdi 5. Rhapsody, "Midsomarvaka" Alfven 6. Reve Angelique Rubinstein 7. Norwegian Dance Grieg 8. Ouverture Solenelle, "1812" Tschaikovsky 9. Suite from "Carmen" Bizet 10. Serenade, "The Millions of Harlequin" Drigo 11. Slavonic Dance, No. 3 Dvorak
During one of his early tours of the United States, Paderewski played a concert at San Jose, California. Two ambitious students at Leland Stanford University managed the recital. They had guaranteed the pianist $2,000. The affair was not much of a success. Only a small audience appeared. The box office receipts were only $1,600. The two despairing students went to the pianist's secretary, and, in tones of anguish, told him that they could turn over only the $1,600 at the moment, but that they would pay the other $400 if they were given a little...
Years afterward Paderewski was moving heaven and earth for the relief of the suffering people of Poland. He sought aid on every side. One of the two students who had managed that disastrous concert at San Jose was Herbert Hoover...