Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan. To London last week from Tokyo British correspondents cabled that the leading Japanese dailies had suddenly started advocating in concert this idea: Japan should forthwith occupy "effete" Britain's territories in the Far East while her attention is monopolized by Egypt and Italy...
...schooling, her father bound her out to a Minneapolis family. Great was the sensation when in later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral she made enough to go to Europe, where she studied with Lilli Lehmann...
...full-page advertisement on the back page of Variety as the possessor of an "individual hot-sweet 'swing' style, " had just played a Sunday afternoon recital to 800 Chicago jazz academicians who would no more have thought of dancing than they would of gavotting at a symphony concert. Clearly, Goodman, who played his first professional date in short pants on an excursion boat, was the Man Of The Hour to thousands of jazz fans...
...than 1,000 English, German, French and Dutch clubs formed a decade ago for the practical purpose of purchasing and pooling "hot" records from the U. S. In the U. S. the purpose of the clubs is to revive old masterpieces, organize "jam sessions" like Goodman's Chicago concert, discuss their hobby in terms which often sound like highflown nonsense...
...preceding day, September 17, a selected group from the Glee Club will combine for a short concert with the Appleton Chapel Choir and a string orchestra directed by Dr. Koussevitsky...