Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a musical person in Boston, Chicago and Manhattan felt his nose a little out of joint last week on reading a widespread report of Concert Manager George Engles. Laporte, Ind., said Manager Engles, not Boston, Chicago or Manhattan, is "the most musical city in the U. S." Nine per cent of its population (15,158) attend concerts regularly as against an average 4% for the rest of the country. Newark, Ohio, rates second with 6%. Big centres like Manhattan and Chicago, despite their great opportunities, pull down the average with less than 1% attendance. Of the larger cities, Boston...
Strange indeed have been the noises issuing from the Copland-Sessions Concerts in Manhattan since last spring, when Composers Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions inaugurated them as a clearinghouse for untried music of their contemporaries. Formidably foolish, almost awesome, appeared the prospect of a Copland-Sessions concert next week, with music by Virgil Thomson, text by Gertrude Stein...
...also learned that the Glee Club will participate in several joint concerts with the Choral Club of Smith College. These concerts will be featured by separate renditions by each of the clubs and by several numbers by the combined chorus. The Smith College Club has as its conductor Mr. Gorokhoff and he and Dr. A. T. Davison '06, the Harvard Glee Club director, will alternate in directing the concert...
...first of the Smith-Harvard concerts will be given in Symphony Hall. Boston, on March 7. A return concert is to be held in Northampton on the evening of April...
...University Instrumental Clubs, comprising 55 men, will entrain from the South Station at 1.05 o'clock today for New York where they will present their annual concert before Gotham society...