Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirituals the audience clamored for encores for a good half hour, until the hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire success. To get a glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert, it was necessary to travel to Philadelphia, to a respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When...
...bottle of champagne when she feels that a performance has been a success. Since she arrived in the U. S. the hearty Norse has never had reason to deny herself the champagne reward. Like every singer who has made a Metropolitan success, she has taken to the road, given concerts before audiences which have seemingly found her perfect. This season she has already given 32 recitals in addition to four performances with the San Francisco Opera (TIME, Nov. 4). She made her concert debut in Manhattan last week and though her voice was sure and strong, it was sometimes grainy...
Giving its second concert within three nights, the Harvard Instrumental Club will continue to spread Christmas cheer, at the Agawam Hunt Club, Providence, tomorrow evening...
Throughout the concert, the precision of attack and delicacy of expression for which the organization is deservedly famed were continually evident. However, to one listening expectantly for the joyous mood of this seasonal music, the performance lacked warmth and exuberance such as should be abundantly present in music of this character. It was as though in securing polish and finish substance had been destroyed...
During intermission at a Vienna Philharmonic concert old ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria shuffled backstage to congratulate Conductor Arturo Toscanini, received word that the maestro was relaxing. Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston...