Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once, when he was president of Columbia University, Ike escaped from a chamber musicale during an intermission, and hid out in the men's room until the lights went up at the end of the concert...
Last week the President: ¶ Performed a painful (for him) presidential duty: accompanied his wife to the opening concert of the National Symphony Orchestra. Ike's musical tastes are simple. He shares Harry Truman's fondness for piano music, and likes to listen to authentic hillbilly ballads, but, like many another American male, he has almost no interest in symphonic music. ¶ Despite an increasing sensitivity to public criticism of his golfing, played his first round of golf in five weeks-on the order of his doctor, who felt that Ike was not getting enough exercise. ¶ Spent...
...most amusing moments when it indulged in a bit of self-derision. During the Dartmouth game, PETER STRAUSS '54 (top) drew applause by leading the band in this striped prisoner's jacket. The jacket is an allusion to Strauss incarceration in the New Haven jug following a 3 a.m. concert at Yale...
...York for the Columbia game, made its traditional stop at the Yale quadrangle in the early morning. Four busloads of musicians and their dates poured onto the streets near the Yale campus, and began to serenade the sleeping Elis. Cat-calls and the New Haven police force interrupted the concert, however, and Strauss was carted off to jail (bottom) with another band member. He was released on $250 bail, and his trial has been postponed indefinitely...
Last year, the company estimates, 90% of all U.S. concert performances were played on Steinways, and this is the sort of success the firm lives for. It does not trouble them that the total production of Steinways is only about 3,200 a year (half of them grands, the rest uprights and spinets), or some 2% of U.S. output.* The company long ago decided to concentrate in the prestige market, set out to persuade artists to play and endorse its product, built the first Steinway Hall to help the scheme along...