Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long divorced from her Spanish husband, Amparo lives in Beverly Hills with her 17-year-old daughter Amparin. Amparo believes that concertizing "is a crazy life," though she has lined up a 30-concert tour for fall. She also plans to make recordings, though she regards the process as "the ultimate torture of our century...
...night last week, under a bright quarter moon, Manhattan music fans gathered for the season's first outdoor concert at Lewisohn Stadium. A stocky, apple-cheeked woman, violin in hand, marched to the center of the stage, nodded confidently to the conductor...
Erica has no children of her own, but likes to play for kids when she can. She cherishes the reaction of a six-year-old who told her after a concert: "I loved your music, it makes me so nice sleepy...
...London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
...Broadcasting Symphony, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). France's Composer Milhaud, like Brahms, waited until he was past 40 to write his first major symphony. He finally wrote it in 1939, at 47. The result is technically brilliant, bright and dry as enamel. Symphonies for Small Orchestra (Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). By comparison, these four little symphonies (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5) seem like, and are, youthful practice flights. Performances: excellent...