Word: concerted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of Mr. Arthur Whiting's chamber music concerts will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall on Wednesday evening, January 20. Tickets for this concert at $1.25 or for the series of three concerts at $3 will be on sale at Amee's on Saturday, and in order to be sure of securing a ticket men who wish to attend should apply early. Mr. Whiting will be assisted at the first concert by Mr. Albert Spaulding, violinist, and Mr. Willem Duneux, 'cellist...
...beyond this general result of all such holiday trips, two peculiar new features have marked the Clubs' 1914-15 tour. In the first place, a dual concert with Michigan in Detroit offered great possibilities for cementing the new friendship started by the football game last fall. At a smoker Saturday afternoon the musicians from the two universities met informally, while in the evening the good relations between Michigan and Harvard were made manifest through the appearance of both organizations on the same stage...
Even more significant, however, was the plan adopted in three cities, of opening the balconies to high school students for a small price. At the concerts in St. Paul and Chicago over 500 members of local preparatory schools heard the concert by the Musical Clubs. Among these boys who are just making their choice of a college, the University was advertised legitimately and effectively. This feature of the trip will probably bring many new students from the Middle West, and will do much to bring Harvard into closer touch with the more distant schools...
...Christmas Eve the Clubs were given a dinner at the University Club of Cleveland. Christmas Day was spent in Akron, where they attended a tea and a dance, besides giving their concert. New Year's Day was passed in St. Louis, where they were entertained at many festivities...
...fifty men who made the trip left Cambridge on Tuesday evening, December 22, arriving in Syracuse Wednesday, morning, where they gave their first concert. Other concerts were given in Akron, December 25; Cleveland, December 26; Milwaukee, December 28; Chicago, December 30; St. Louis, December 31; and a dual concert with Michigan in Detroit on January 2. In all of these places the concerts were given under the auspices of the local Harvard Clubs, and in all of them many preparations were made for the entertainment of the Clubs,--sight-seeing tours, teas, dinners and dances being among the many entertainments...