Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the mob of music fans who stormed into Radio City's modernistic Studio 8-H for the opening concert of Toscanini's eleventh NBC season, heard a concert to be remembered. As usual, shy, nervous Pianist Horowitz almost had to be propelled onstage. But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished. When it was finally over, little, white-topped Papa and slender, dark-haired Volodya stood together, bowing...
...apartment and studio in Manhattan's upper East side (and has become a U.S. citizen). Gone are the days of which he complains, "I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more." He still commands the biggest box office of any living concert musician, but is sticking to his resolve to perform only six months of the year and not more than twice a week...
Director of the society, G. Wallace Woodworth '24, and the club officers judged and graded the quartets. "It is never an easy job to select 70 from 200 good voices," Barbara Connelly '49, president of Choral, remarked. "Of course they all want to be in the concert...
Goldovsky, who made a place on the concert and lecture platform long before his operas began to draw critical praise, holds one unshakable belief: that acting and direction are as vital to opera as singing and orchestration. In his summers at Tanglewood, he has trained not only a fine corps of performers but also a small group of directors, musicians, and production...
...aspect of a sanctuary. Those who passed through it removed their hats, and the Corporation, in granting the use of Sanders Theater, were careful to protect it from breaches of dignity and decorum. When, after an absence from the University for twenty-four years, I first attended a concert in Sanders I was surprised to see receptacles for cigarette ashes in the Transept; a chattering throng such as fills the lobby of a theater between the acts. Harvard men of my time were brought up during a period when veterans of the Civil War, then still to be found...