Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore Manhattanites were prepared for almost anything when the Cleveland Orchestra, still in its precocious youth, sat down on the stage of Carnegie Hall last week, for its eighth annual Manhattan concert, and burst, with groaning wood and trumpeting brass, into the first program ever offered by a U. S. symphony of first rank on which appeared three native compositions...
...GREEN FOREST?Nathalie Sedgwick Colby?Harcourt Brace ($2). The "green forest" herein is a world of the spirit which Shirley Challoner entered one day at a concert with David Findley, a young doctor. Between them sat Shirley's husband, heavy and lit eral. Shirley and David could not have each other then because Shirley was going to have a baby. Years later, at the time of this story, Franklin Challoner is buried but his daughter keeps David and Shirley apart again. She drags Shirley to Europe in pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement...
...series of five concerts has been planned. Opening on February 26 with a concert in Frye Hall, Portland, Maine, the instrumentalists will entertain at Phillips-Exeter Academy on the following afternoon. Their third concert will be on March 4, in Brattle Hall, Cambridge. This will be their only individual performance in Cambridge. Following their usual custom of giving a concert annually in New York City, the clubs will travel to the metropolis on March 5, where they will play in the Town Hall. The final performance will be in New Bedford on March...
...pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert...
...early work, remains his most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep into philosophy; another, Heldenleben (Life of a Hero), was admittedly satirical autobiography, with realistic passages presenting the jabbering of critics. Then came, perhaps thirdly, though somewhat intermittent and extended in date, his fine concert songs (lieder), the equal in art of the great of all times in that field. Fourth was opera, which at first he twice essayed with failure...