Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bucking a trend he himself started 20 years ago when Benny and his free-swinging sidemen had youngsters clustering around the bandstand to squeal and applaud their riffs and licks. Swing was the thing, and in 1938 Benny Goodman set an altitude record for jazzmen with his concert at Carnegie Hall...
...grand self-depreciation, "but no one will imitate me because I won't make a penny on it." Out of his share of the receipts Rubinstein was paying for the accompanying symphony orchestra (mostly members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony) under Conductor Alfred Wallenstein. Despite the backbreaking concert schedule, tireless Artur Rubinstein took on two recording sessions, one of them at midnight (he has sold more than 3,000,000 albums for RCA Victor...
...something. My wife wants this or that, and there are friends to see and parties to go to. Touring is easy. I go to my hotel, and there is nothing to do but have my dinner and lie down for a while and read. Peace and quiet. Then the concert with everyone so kind, so good...
...with Artur Rubinstein. In his painting-crammed Park Avenue apartment, or his painting-crammed house in Paris, or in the world's best restaurants and sleekest salons, he is always onstage and always in action-shrugging, mugging, clowning, hand-kissing, charming, talking, talking, talking. And in concert halls and auditoriums, gymnasiums, stadiums and town halls from Sydney to Saskatchewan he is making music with hands and heart, and always trying to do it better...
Past Freshman Weekends have usually included only a Saturday night dinner and dance. This year, a Friday night concert by the Radcliffe Freshman Chorus will open the affair. Miss Stein explained that the concert will be open to the public, and that all proceeds will be used to defray costs incurred by Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers at the Metropolitan Hospital...