Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Mrs. John T. McCullough was occupied mostly in being a Greenwich, Conn. housewife, bringing up her eight-year-old son, raising Boxer dogs, and when she had time, listening to good music. She subscribed, in fact, to a three-concert winter series to be given by the Greenwich Community Concert Association...
When she got a list of the artists who were to appear, Mrs. McCullough was a little put out. The second concert featured Larry Adler, the mouth organist, and Paul Draper, the lissome dancer, and she had read enough about them to conclude that both had been busy supporters of various Communist fronts. Hester McCullough went to the telephone and called several board members of the Greenwich Community Concert Association to protest the idea of presenting artists who mixed their art with politics. Most of the members pooh-poohed...
...Harvard last Tuesday. In the scant ten years since his graduation, Bernstein has had many handfuls of musical confetti flung upon him: two symphonies, two ballets, a Broadway musical, and the official blessing of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. Now he is rising in the field of conducting, and Tuesday's concert added to his already brilliant record in a not unenviable post as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Condon's has a low enough cover and a good enough six-piece band to make a visit desirable anyway. The addition of this soloist who looks like a junior executive makes such a pilgrimage almost compulsory. He treats a concert grand like an upright with newspaper behind the strings a la Chicago. That's no mean treatment, either...
...series of "symphony forums designed to bring good music to the students at low prices" is being instituted by the National Student Association, N.S.A. officers disclosed last night. The first concert in this series will be given at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Rindge Auditorium when the First Veterans' Orchestra will present a concert of light classics...