Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After five well received concerts in the East and Middle West, both musically and financially successful, accompanied by as many luncheons, tea dances, dinners, debutante balls, sightseeing tours, and special entertainments, the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs disbanded in Chicago after the Sunday afternoon concert of December 30. Some departed homeward; about 20 members left that night at 9 o' clock for Boston in one of the special cars while the Glen Douglas special left the following morning with those men who had remained for a dinner dance...
Ganna Walska had doings in three big cities last week. In Manhattan she opened a perfume shop to be sister of one opened by her a year ago on the Rue de la Paix in Paris. In Washington she gave a concert, was entertained by President and Mrs. Coolidge, Polish Minister and Mme. Jan Ciechanowska, French Ambassador and Mme. Paul Claudel. la Chicago she had intended to sing but instead she took to her bed with influenza, cancelled all future engagements. When newsmen asked Harvester Harold Fowler McCormick if his wife intended to forsake her singing, he answered...
When ten-year-olds have birthdays they must have parties. True to its years, then, was the Cleveland Orchestra when last week at home it celebrated the tenth year of its existence, the tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron...
...Alley. Certainly the Concerto, trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...
...luncheon, and tea dance will precede the evening concert in Buffalo on the following day. Due to the necessity of an early start for Cincinatti, the men will have only a brief time to enjoy the many entertainments after concert, before entraining for the middle West...