Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez invaders been allowed "another 48 hours" in November 1956 to topple Nasser. To allies of the West, such as Turkey and Iran, one undeniable gain of the week's events was the fact that this time the U.S. and Britain were acting in concert in the Middle East. Cracked one Englishman who had been against Suez: "At least, the U.S. has now been found drunk in the same ditch with...
Last week crowds thronged to hear the student orchestra of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music play its first concert in the fair's Grand Auditorium, responded with such applause that Conductor Jean Morel had to come back and lead two encores from Stravinsky's Firebird. And the main fairgrounds competition the Juilliard musicians had to buck came from another U.S. group: Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." troupe, which at the same hour was packing the U.S. Pavilion Theater by presenting such gustily American dance pieces as The Concert and New York Export: Opus Jazz...
...bush are formidable. The Queensland Symphony Orchestra, for instance, travels 3,500 miles a year in four wooden railroad sleeping cars, carrying with it such essentials as stage curtains, lights, primus stoves and portable iceboxes. In the town of Innisfail, instruments too big to go up the hilltop concert hall's narrow stairway were hoisted 80 ft. by steel cables. At Townsville the musicians heard an ominous crackling sound, scrambled offstage seconds before a 30-ft. beam crashed down on their music stands and chairs...
Died. Richard G. Herndon, 85, theatrical producer (first try: 1914's The Lady in Red), impresario who introduced Anna Pavlova and Waslaw Nijinsky to U.S. balletomanes, managed concert tours for Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman, Jacques Thibaud; in Philadelphia...
Members of the tour will also be invited to attend a chamber music concert Sunday morning at 10 a.m., given by the student Berkshire Music Orchestra. That afternoon, Munch will conduct the BSO in a concert of Bartok (Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta), Ravel (second suite from "Daphnis and Chloe") and Tschaikovsky (the Violin Concerto), with violin solo by Zino Francescatti...