Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder the people of the country repudiate the Democratic party. We could not even hold the solid South were it not for the race question. We have no more concert of action or continuity of purpose than a lot of chickens in a barnyard when an owl comes along...
...name meant little to the neighbors. It meant much to musicians. They knew that Mrs. Roy Emerson Whittern is also Ethel Leginska,* famed more for her disappearances than for her appearances. They were interested to hear that Leginska says she has definitely retired from the concert stage: "The public will soon forget me as a pianist and I shall be glad. No one knows how I have suffered for the past 17 years every time I have been obliged to face an audience. Concert playing may be spectacular, but the great art is in composing and conducting. I am never...
...American music by American artists" was given last week in Manhattan, the first concert under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters "to aid in fuller recognition of distinguished American artists." The American artists were: Mme. Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley...
Eighty-one musicians chosen from the theatres and cinema houses of Washington took the stage of Poll's Theatre, Washington, last week. It was the first concert of the Washington Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Kurt J. Hetzel, promised since early last summer to the only city of its size and development not possessing a permanent, flourishing orchestra. Conductor Hetzel, tall, slender, dynamic, had had his men together for only five ensemble rehearsals. Nevertheless they played creditably, excellently, an exacting if not unhackneyed program, which included Liszt's "Les Preludes," Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the Tannhauser Overture...
...program for the first concert is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Miserere Allegri Chorus of Bacchanties Gouned Coronation Scene, from Boris Godonov Moussorgsky Gute Nacht German Folk Song Reaper's Song Bohemian Folk Song Then round about the starry throne, from Sampson Handel