Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert, under the auspices of the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs will be given in the living room of Radcliffe's Agassiz Hall. Boykan will illustrate his lecture with performances of music by Schoenberg and other 12-tone composers...
...Truman-Stalin meeting without ballyhoo and propagandizing motives. This would be an excellent beginning to East-West agreements, and it must be earnestly followed up by Washington. But even this could not solve the world's troubles. There can be no side-sweeping Truman-Stalin "deals." Only a concert of Western powers can bargain with Russia. If Truman and Stalin tried to compromise their way to a more comfortable "peace," the patient work of the North Atlantic group of powers would be disrupted...
Pianist Gieseking didn't know far enough, as he soon found out. First, he learned that he was only on parole to his manager. Then, while he was resting in his Manhattan hotel room four hours before concert time, the phone rang. He would have to go to the immigration office. There, by his account, he was confronted with "five newspaper articles . . . criticizing me . . . I could not answer immediately, since much of the material I needed was in Europe. I was told that a decision on my case would take four to six weeks. I didn't want...
...members of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., plus pickets from the American Veterans Committee and other organizations, paraded in front of Carnegie Hall with placards (GIESEKING PLAYS TONIGHT-WILL ILSE KOCH PLAY SATURDAY? GIESEKING PLAYS TO THE TUNE OF 6,OOO,OOO MURDERED JEWS, etc.), the concert was canceled. A sellout crowd of 2,760 was turned away. Gieseking flew off for Paris...
...logged nearly 100,000 hours on his fiddle ("the equivalent of practically ten years of playing 24 hours a day") and traveled almost 2,000,000 miles. He was, he decided, long overdue for an overhaul. At the end of his season, he called off all concert fiddling, except a few radio broadcasts, "to give both myself and the public a break...