Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday afternoon, in Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Monteux conducting, gave the third concert of its Friday afternoon series, Mr. Moiseiwitsch was the soloist...
...first concert, the orchestra set for itself such a high standard of ensemble playing that it seemed impossible that they could continue at the same pace. Yesterday in such an exacting work as Mozart's E flat major symphony, (K. 543), they proved their remarkable ability in neat playing, and clean whittling, not in a large work like Zarathustra, but in a classical symphony. How Mr. Monteux is able to do so well with both moderns and "ancients" is an enigma to many at least of his hearers...
Tickets are now on sale for the annual joint concert by the Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs and Pierian Sodality Orchestra with the Princeton Chorister Glee Club, Orchestra, and Banjo Club. The concert will be held, as usual, the evening before the Princeton football game, Friday, November 10. It will commence at 8.45 o'clock and will be over in time to enable the audience to attend the dance at the Union. Probably about 60 members of the Glee Club and 45 from the Instrumental Clubs will participate...
According to statistics in an article in Collier's Weekly, the American public has paid $100,000,000 less this year to see "movies" than they did the year previous. Theatre, concert, and various patronage in this period has increased...
Yesterday's Symphony concert, Mr. Monteux conducting, was the second of the Boston series. As often, the eagerly-awaited proved disappointing in the extreme; what was expected to be dull and prosaic was interesting and charming. The Dvorak of the F-major symphony shows himself a skillful musician, interesting if not thrilling, original if not "radical", pleasing if not powerful--altogether charming. Particularly in the first three movements did he display his fertile imagination, flowing melodic invention, and dainty skill in orchestration. There is a cleanness and purity that resembles Mozart, with none of the muddiness which occasionally mars...