Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's only child talked to her father & mother and got their approval. Last week Margaret Truman, soprano, had an apartment of her own in Manhattan where she will live with her mother's secretary, Miss Reathel Odum, while she practices for a concert tour in October. Margaret, who will be 25 next week (Feb. 17), expects to spend one weekend a month in Washington...
...maintained, the dissensions were "entirely political and in no sense musical." Whatever their implication, the dissensions continued. The Detroit local of the American Federation of Musicians disbanded the musicians' committee that had been dealing with the symphony management. Reichhold posted notice that the orchestra's 28-concert spring tour...
...also, apparently, frozen up their playing, and Detroit critics were quick to notice it. Wrote the Detroit Times after a concert last week: "A morass of spotty mediocrity . . . the low point of the season." After the next night's repeat performance, Reichhold grabbed a real hot potato with both hands. He rushed backstage, delivered an ultimatum: "Either the orchestra does something immediately about the press, or 90 men will be out of a job. Dr. Krueger and I have fought bad publicity by ourselves long enough. Now it's up to you." He ordered them to protest...
...concert concluded with the Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee." Although this was the most melodic of the material played and the easiest to understand, it did not impress me much one way or the other. The writing is clever but essentially empty...
Tuesday evening's concert of the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theater was pretty much of a family affair. Igor Stravinsky conducted, his son Soulima was the piano soloist, and the music was, of course, all Stravinsky. Indeed, the entire atmosphere of the concert was one of a family gathering, intent on making music and not worrying too much about the quality of performance...