Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rimsky thus was not in the concert hall to hear the first performance of his protégé's Fireworks. But another man was, whose presence helped change the whole course of 20th Century music...
Berkshire Festival Concert (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Mozart...
...Famed Cellist Maas, leader of the Paganini Quartet, had died a dozen or so miles away, at Oakland's Mills College, at the end of a concert...
...been just 20 years since four teen-age students at London's Royal Academy of Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...
They toured Europe, playing nearly 1,000 concerts. When war came they joined the R.A.F. together, and were made the official R.A.F. Quartet. Besides playing in shelters, at airdromes and in factories, they played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, and at the Potsdam conference. U.S. critics, who first heard them on a 60-concert tour of the U.S. in 1939, generally rate them among the top four or five quartets playing in this country. No other major quartet has stayed together so long...