Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. A little girl sat in the gallery at a Tetrazzini concert, her black pigtails rigid with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile...
...opening concert and dance of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra will be given at Brattle Hall on December 19, it was announced last night by the management. Paul Allen, a prominent orchestral composer, is writing a number to the played for the first time on this occasion, the opening of the orchestra's one hundred twenty-second concert season. Nicholas Siovimsky, composer, teacher, and conductor of the Pierian, explained that there will be six flute parts in this composition, and that there is an opportunity for three horns, three trombones, two double basses, two oboes and bassoons, and any number...
...nothing interferes. She sings twice a week at the Metropolitan, their highest salaried singer. She rehearses. She sleeps. Other singers may ail. Jeritza has never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when it was over she could still make a joke. Bent and looking infinitely pathetic: "Won't someone do something...
Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski has a way of taking his Philadelphia audiences to account. Last week they annoyed him by coming late to a concert, clattering down the aisles, banging down seats. He stopped the music, wheeled on them: "Please, please don't make those noises. They are very distracting. We work hard all week to give you this music, but I cannot do my best without your aid. I'll give you my best or I won't give you anything. It is for you to choose...
...ushers mistook the pause for the end of the number, admitted more people. Conductor Stokowski sprang off his dais and off the stage. Philadelphians caught their breaths, sat still as pins till he came back, started the concert for the third time...