Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furtwangler, conductors, Arturo Toscanini, guest conductor, will open its season in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, give its first Manhattan concert on Oct. 14. Mr. Mengelberg's novelties will include Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest, a tone poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner...
...Manhattan, last week, high in New Steinway Hall, clerks of the Stadium Concert Management sorted letters, thousandsof them, neatly typewritten letters, smudgily scrawled letters, letters from Manhattan, letters from far away, from tired city folk, from vacationists taking their Stadium concerts by radio. Into piles they put them to be counted ballot-wise to make up a concluding "request" night program. Tchaikovsky was first. The program: Pathetic Symphony (Tchaikovsky); Don Juan (Richard Strauss) ; Tales of the Vienna Woods (Johann Strauss); 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky...
...patiently to hear yet another speech by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. The thousands far away, in stuffy sitting-rooms, carpet-slippered, collarless, on cottage porches lit by a cool, waning moon, heard the last tremendous strains of the overture, whisked their dials around to another station. The Manhattan outdoor concert season had ended...
...human side poverty is the rule and actual misery only too frequent among musicians. On the artistic side the activities of concert halls and operas, filled as they are with memories of past glories, force upon the observer the unpleasant truth that art is hopelessly dependent upon economic prosperity. . . . "We must remember that an overwhelmingly large percentage of the composers, performers and teachers who make our musical life what it is today are Europeans; that most of the important music produced is European, and that the fundamentals of the whole art as we know and practice it are European...
...Scala it is whispered that the baton of Bernardino Molinari will flicker. Neapolitans, devotees of the famed San Carlos Opera will hail as their chief conductor, this winter, Tullio Serafin, long a brilliant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. Pietro Mascagni will go to the Augustep, chief concert hall of Romans, it is said...