Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beniamino Gigli, 58, still one of the world's great tenors, who left the Met in 1939 ("I do not like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
...drive ends on Sunday afternoon with a free concert of German orchestral and "lieder" music in the Paine Music Building...
Prescott Bohn and James Stewart presented a concert by the Crimson Stompers in the Common Room after dinner while Joe Heaney and Bert Karon passed out free beer in Thayer...
...pleasure to report that last night's concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra was a great improvement in every way over their effort last spring. The program was more coherent, each member played with interest and serious attention, and, most important, the group became a cohesive unit, devoted to getting music across...
...fall to see the reason for ending the concert with Benjamin's Overture to an Italian Comedy. Though the performance was good, it is a slight piece and would have been far less of a sacrifice us a warmer-up than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise the program was interesting and consecutive. Malcolm Holmes arranged the Purcell suite from separate dances which he found. With the exception of the Large-Minuet, all the movements contain delightful duets for violin and flute. Howard Brown played with skill but was too frequently obscured by the concert master's able...