Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manager of Schumann-Heink, Taliey, Paderewski, Heifetz, estimated that the U. S. spends 20 million dollars for music each year. His budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions a year...
...speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus. But they wore only conventional concert dress. They were forbidden to do any business, or to create any illusion. Illusion was to be the monopoly of the self-sufficient music. His music was to be absolutely untranslatable into program notes...
...That music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Serge Koussevitzky conducting, will give a concert this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Bernard Zighera will appear with the orchestra as a soloist. This is the second of a series of concerts which the Boston Symphony Orchestra is giving this month in Sanders Theatre...
...next concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of Expositions of Chamber Music will take place in Paine Hall, on March 7 at 8.15 o'clock...