Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned into a courtroom, while British and German lawyers argued whether he was a criminal or just an officer who had done his duty...
...Overalls. In Texas one of Hendl's most spectacular achievements was his engineering of a musical rapprochement between Dallas and its bitter rival, Fort Worth, 35 miles away. One afternoon last month Hendl, in overalls and a farmer's straw hat, conducted a successful children's concert in Fort Worth. That evening, in white tie, he gave their elders a solid program of Bach, Mozart and Stravinsky. Forthwith, Fort Worth Flour Miller Edwin Bewley Jr. persuaded a group of his fellow citizens to form a Fort Worth Symphony Society. Its purpose: to promote further concerts in Fort...
Pleasing the grey, matronly Friday matinee-goers was certainly part of the Boston tradition. Some of them would miss the little after-concert ceremony in the greenroom: kissing and being kissed by Koussy. Their new conductor was an affectionate man, but not quite the kissing type. Like many another native of Alsace, Charles Munch is a composite of the characteristics of both France and Germany. In him the French bon vivant shines only dimly through a fog of German Weltschmerz: he enjoys life but seldom seems basically happy...
...Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...
After the concert last week, William Primrose said: "There isn't anything missing in this concerto. It has everything-excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year: "I think of this work as a wonderful and beautiful white diamond. It is just as hard, just as crisp and just as white. I think it is an explanation of the whole man who was Bela Bartok...