Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holding onto her hat, Contralto Marian Anderson, well-armed with a rich repertory of Negro spirituals, operatic arias and just plain old songs, took off from New York's International Airport at Idlewild for Stockholm, the first stop on an eleven-week concert tour of Europe...
...century, Dayton-born Arthur Judson became a violinist and teacher. A handsome, strongly built fellow with a resonant voice, he was soon speaking of music as another merchant might of hardware, and selling it as enthusiastically. In 1915 he became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, then founded his own concert agency. Gradually he added to his domain: in 1922 he became business manager of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1927 he became a co-founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, gleefully predicting an immense shortage of artists as radio grew...
Very, Very Villegas (Columbia). Argentine Concert Pianist Enrique Villegas. whose gears shifted to jazz a long time ago when he first heard Duke Ellington, ripples through some fine old tunes in a style that should put his listeners in high. Into his giggly musical hopper Pianist Villegas topples everything from burlesque to Bartok, turns out some unique...
...Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok's Music Festival. Producer...
...premiere was 25 years late. In West Berlin's ultramodern Conservatory Concert Hall one night last week, a large crowd gathered for the first performance of Piano Concerto No. 4, written by Russia's late great Sergei Prokofiev in 1931. At the keyboard was East Berlin's Pianist Siegfried Rapp, impeccable in white tie and tails. There was only one odd thing about the soloist: his right sleeve was empty and pinned to his coat...