Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, they gave their first concert, wearing their National costume ?white blouse, black tall boots, red and black cap with four corners, raked with three brave peacock feathers. Said Critic Deems Taylor: "A very ordinary provincial symphony orchestra, with an insufficient number of strings and wind sections that play neither well nor wholly in tune...
...particularly ambitious undertaking, and will require an accompaniment of 60 members of the Symphony Orchestra, about 125 voices from the Radcliffe Choral Society, and an equal number of Glee Club men. In addition, two professional concert singers have been chartered to do the baritone and soprano solos which occur from time to time. It is on account of the elaborate preparation required in the production, that the "Requiem" is very rarely heard in Boston...
...piece certainly not noted for its simplicity, is an undertaking worthy of Boston's greatest Symphonic leader. Born at Tver, in the north of Russia, M. Koussevitsky began the study of music very early in life. At the age of twelve he led the Municipal Orchestra in a brilliant concert, and was considered the prodigy of the age. Later he played the double bass in the Moscow Imperial Orchestra, until he again took up conducting...
Tonight at 8 o'clock the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its sixth Cambridge concert at Sanders Theatre. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the orchestra in a program noteworthy for its seldom-heard numbers. The soloist will be Paul Kachauski, a violinist who is known to Boston audiences through several performances in past years...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock Mme. Nadia Boulanger, distinguished French organist, planist, and lecturer, will give a lecture and recital at Paine Concert Hall. This recital is under the management of George Engles and is free and open to the public...