Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difference," he once cried, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Last week Petrillo set up a little ceremony to pound home his point of view. Before him came Pianist Oscar Levant, penalized with suspension from the union last April for temperamentally failing to honor concert contracts, thus depriving supporting musicians of work. Levant's humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There was Menuhin," he said. "He used to talk about his art and his God and his fiddle. Then one day when he was supposed to play in Philly, we told...
...season's final concert of Washington's National Gallery Orchestra last week was no place for cold-blooded Yankees. The west court of the gallery rang with the words and music of such songs as The Bonnie Blue Flag, The Conquered Banner, the sentimental love song Lorena, and for a finale, Dixie, with a 40-voice chorus giving the rebel yell...
Eddy kept busy on the radio until 1949; then, instead of launching into TV, he went back to his first career: well-paid concert tours...
Although he has a fairly solid repertory in recital music and some grand opera (he once sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
Ever since the late Serge Prokofiev's War and Peace got its first concert performance in Moscow in 1944, the world's opera houses have hankered to stage it. For one reason or another, none ever got far. The opera's jumbo length (eleven scenes which would spread over two four-hour performances), its 40 individual roles and choruses of several hundred, all proved too discouraging. But last week the Italian city of Florence put on a digested, four-hour version as the high spot of its May music festival, and as a triumphant coup over Milan...