Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signer Fortune Gallo, famed director of the San Carlo Opera Company, last week sent out a letter to music clubs, to critics, to concert managers. "I," said Fortune Gallo, "have announced my willingness to form an All-American Opera Company for the presentation of the works of American composers in English, next season . . . The first opera will be the new American opera Alglagla . . . by composer Frank de Leone [Akron, Ohio]. . . . The company will comprise not less than 50 persons. . . . No money will be spared." To the East, to the West, said Signor Gallo, his opera company would go, tour...
Last week, in Manhattan, the New York Chamber Music Society gave a concert, played a new composition written for it-Portrait of a Lady by Composer Deems Taylor, scored for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, piano. In the audience, reporting the evening's entertainment for The New York World, sat Critic Deems Taylor, listened while the likeness of his lovely lady took on shape and color in the bodiless air. Wrote he: "As one of Mr. Taylor's warmest admirers, we had looked forward with considerable interest to hearing...
...Pierian Sodality will give its annual concert and dance at Brattle Hall this year on March 4, at 8.15 o'clock. The concert will be the feature of the evening, followed by a dance for which a special dance orchestra has been engaged. Invitations for the concert will be sent out shortly to undergraduates...
Among the other concerts which will be given during the course of the spring is one at Springfield on Sunday, March 8. This concert will be held in the Y. M. C. A. as one of a series of concerts which that organization carries on every year in connection with its Sunday afternoon amusement program...
There will also be a spring trip this year, with several concerts in cities between Boston and New York, and ending with a performance in Aeolian Hall, New York. Last year the trip was a great success. At every concert enthusiastic audiences crowded the halls to the door...