Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the reaches of a great department store, empty of its shoppers, drifted one evening last week the sound of sweet, incredibly sweet strings, played on by sensitive, appreciative fingers. It was the first concert given with the Rodman Wanamaker collection* of rare Italian violins, violas and cellos, in the auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens...
...Even the concert last night has failed to cure my cold and after I have munched my coffee roll and duly recognized the decadence of these times as reflected on the front page of the Herald I shall be in no mood for ought but snuffling. "Le Misanthrope" should fit my temper at 10 o'clock and in Sever 23 I shall be able to think of a dinky little provincial troupe of actors who once played their Moliere at Grenoble in such a way that I minded not my complete ignorance of the tongue. Or I can find...
...University Glee Club will give a concert in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Members of the University and their guests will be admitted free of charge...
...last concert in the series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music under the direction of Mr. Arthur Whiting will be given on Wednesday evening, March 31 at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building. The programme will be given by the Hartmann String Quartet, and Mr. Whiting will be at the pianoforte...
...resignation of J. G. Wright '28 from the position of leader of the Gold Coast Orchestra of the Instrumental Clubs Wednesday evening after the concert at the Union. C. E. Henderson '28 was elected to the position. Henderson plays the piano for all the separate divisions of the clubs, and gives two specialty acts. One is an imitation of a piano in a cheap moving-picture theatre. The other is a piano duet with Wright, the retiring leader...