Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaties provided for an 18 months' probation period, during which the Allied military missions in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia were to watch, "in concert," the activities of the defeated nations. Last week, the probation period was up. The U.S. and Britain took the occasion to tell the world how the three Russian satellites respected their solemn obligations...
Reserved Rights. Every time the U.S. protested against treaty violations, said the State Department, the satellites pointed out that protests must be made "in concert" with the West's Russian allies. The Russians flatly refused to act in concert-or to act at all except in support of the local Reds. Huffed the State Department: "The U.S. Government reserves all its rights under the treaties...
...starlit night four years ago, in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
This time, the organizers set out to learn just what Brooklyn wanted. They rang doorbells, stopped citizens on the streets, questioned 8,000 people. Findings: most people who were likely to come and listen wanted two concerts a month and thought a $2 top for tickets about right; only 18% wanted an all-symphonic program. 58% wanted them "usually" symphonic; 75% preferred pianists as soloists; more wanted to hear contraltos than sopranos. But above all, Brooklyn wanted to have opera-at least in concert performance...
Says White: "We're trying to prepare them to become good musical citizens in a community-the kind that can give lessons to Junior, play a concert at the Elks or Kiwanis, organize a group to put on an operetta, make a good living and contribute something to the community...