Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First concert was in Hartford, where the players blamed the recent flood for what seemed to be a cool reception even to Stokowski's dazzling Bach orchestrations, the electrified excerpts from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. But Boston more than made up for Hartford's apathy. In Hartford Stokowski played a Bach encore "because you seem to love Bach so." In Boston he played four encores because Bostonians clamored for them. Gist of Stokowski's speech in Boston was his admiration for Boston's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony "from which I learned so much...
Appearing in its last Cambridge concert of the season, the Pierian Sodality of 1908 will perform this evening in Paine Hall. The only other two concerts will be at Wellesley and the Connecticut College for Women...
...recently organized House Glee Club is already rehearsing for a joint concert with the Junior League on Tuesday...
...music the young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent Garden Opera. As regular conductor of the Leeds Symphony and the Scottish Orchestra of Glasgow, he has had such success that...
...only public appearance here this season, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will give a concert in Paine Hall next Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock...