Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listed on the program, an integral part of the concert will take place after the formally arranged works have been performed. Members of the University are invited to take a place on the steps with the Glee Club and join in the singing...
Rain is the chief threat to the performances. If downpours should occur at any of the concerts, the concert will be called off. Traditionally, however, good weather has prevailed. For the first time in several years, the second concert in the 1948 series was called off, but by extending the concerts over a long period, chances for fair weather at the performances this year are good...
...rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second concert that night...
...legislature has upped its contribution too. Last year, they supported Ben's orchestra to the tune of $12,000 (to let the legislators hear what they're voting for, he takes the orchestra onto the floor of the state capitol at Raleigh every year for an evening concert). Last week, they voted him $15,000 to carry on next year...
...Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians the way to play Mozart (a way few critics...