Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcer's metallic voice jargoned, reminded the throng of ghostly listeners that the two artists made records for the Victor Co., that these records were on sale. Before Mr. McCormack sang his crowning ballad, Mother Machres, telegrams began to arrive from far states congratulating the singers. At the concert's end, the selected notables in the reception room rose and beat their palms together...
Said Arthur Hammerstein, producer : "Broadway lost over $100,000 because of that concert...
...request of the Sargent School, the University Instrumental Clubs have invited all students in the University to attend their concert today at 3 o'clock at the Sargent School. No admission will be charged and there will be a tea dance from 4 until 6 o'clock...
...stage of Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, was set for a concert. On it loomed no pianoforte's harp-shaped shadow; no fiddlers tried their strings; no brisk conductor raised his arm. It was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. At the back of this bare stage, there stood a huge screen, black-bordered; down by the footlights were certain metal boxes, each topped with a keyboard of sliding buttons. Before the concert began, a man made a speech. He was Thomas Wilfred, Danish singer, who invented the instrument so curiously composed of the metal boxes, the great screen...
...voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down as if he had interrupted the first movement of a sonata. But at the concert's end they, too, clapped long for Inventor Wilfred...