Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual concert and dance of the University Band will be held tonight in Brattle Hall at 8.15 o'clock. A. F. Keeley '27 will lead and the assisting soloist will be Edward Ballantine '07, who will play his well known composition entitled "Variations on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb...
Dancing will follow the concert and will last until 1 o'clock. Music for the dance will be supplied by Jack Wright's seven-piece orchestra known as "The Bandoleers". Tickets may be procured at $2 a couple at Brine's and at the door of Brattle Hall. Stage tickets...
...Thomson should not have said so, and the reception of the Orchestra in Springfield is quite beside the point. The Pierian may have played badly in Brattle Hall (and I think that even its most ardent supporters will admit that there were a few blemishes in this concert) and still have acquitted itself very creditably in Springfield four days later. I grant that Mr. Thomson was harsh in using such phrases as "tender and devoted skill" concerning a soloist who deserved a great deal of praise, but the august Pierian did not one whit enhance its dignity by replying...
...last Saturday's CRIMSON an article appeared by Mr. Virgil Thomson purposing to be a criticism of a recent concert given by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. It is generally supposed that the word criticism means an expression of one's views from an unbiased and impersonal standpoint--especially in its application to concerts, paintings, and the like. Certainly none but a most unmitigated neurastheniac would attempt to apply this somewhat broad definition to Mr. Thomson's effort of Saturday last. That there was something radically unfair about his "criticism" and his presumptuous attitude the following three points will, I hope...
First, in his reference to the manner in which the music was played. I have delayed the writing of this letter in order to await the result of the orchestra's trip to Springfield last Sunday. Here if played precisely the same music as at the Brattle Hall Concert. Had this concert been a failure, as I was led to believe by Mr. Thomson's article, the Brattle Hall Concert was, I would have doubtless been forced to believe the half truths of his article. However, I am saved from this painful conclusion by the following facts; an audience...