Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chosen on the basis of their grade in these trials and the regularity of their attendance at rehearsals, the successful choralists will also travel to Bowdoin on December 4. Two days later they will join the Bowdoin Glee Club in a concert at Portland, Maine...
...Wednesday evening the London String Quartet performed Beethoven's three Rasoumowski Quartets in Sanders Theater, and those who were terminate through to the best concert of the year. One of the finest of its kind in the world, the group certainly confirmed its reputation in the different program...
Richard Burgin, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, conducted the Orchestra night before last at the opening concert of the 1948-49 series. While Mr. Burgin is not an unusually gifted conductor in his own right, his long association with the Boston Symphony has made him entirely capable of taking over the Orchestra in Dr. Koussevitzky's absence. Mr. Burgin showed excellent taste in choosing a program: the concert opened with Brahms' often-played Third Symphony, continued with the never-played Adagio from Bruckner's String Quintet, and finished with a suite from "The Fairy Tale of Tsar Saltan...
Thirty years ago, France's finest orchestra, the 90-year-old Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, was embarked on a U.S. warship, destination New York. At their first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor...
Their first concert was in Bridgeport, Conn., in a kind of sneak preview before their big night in Carnegie Hall. After five curtain calls, Musical Director Henry Barraud asked an American: "Is that good? In France that would be very good...