Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soloist at the Wellesley-Harvard joint choral concert this Sunday will be a former member of the Glee Club, Joseph Lautner, '21. As an undergraduate he was first Secretary and then President of the choristers. Since then he has studied abroad, where he attained world-wide fame as a tenor and has recently returned from a European concert tour. The concert will be at Wellesley in Houghton Memorial Chapel at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening, and is open to the public free of charge...
...Manhattan two years ago Antonia Brico assembled 87 women musicians and conducted them in their first symphony concert (TIME, March 25, 1935). Last week when Miss Brico wound up the third season of the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra, she also had command over four solo singers and a composite chorus of 250. This time there were men in her orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer...
...news two months ago to devotees of serious radio music was the engagement of Arturo Toscanini to return from retirement and broadcast next winter with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME. Feb. 15). Three weeks ago Manhattan music lovers heard one of the greatest concerts of the season when Artur Rodzinski conducted his special version of Elektra. And last week NBC created another happy radio flurry by also appointing Rodzinski to its concert podium and by making public plans for a whole year of fine music...
Beginning next season, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, consisting of at least 80 men handpicked by Rodzinski, will broadcast one concert a week for 52 weeks. Toscanini and Rodzinski will each conduct ten as sustaining programs. The remaining 32 concerts may or may not be commercially sponsored. Who will conduct them is equally undecided. It seemed certain, however, that Columbia, which usually matches the rival chain feature for feature, would have to bestir itself to equal the first year-round radio concert project under such distinguished auspices...
...used in his great Passacaglia in C Minor.* But few in the audience had ever heard more about Buxtehude than his odd name. Important as is his niche in the history of music, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a great organist whose works are rarely played in the concert hall...