Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What I will do first, what I will sing first when I am fully recovered I am not sure. I love concert work. . . . But opera was my first love, and I hope that soon the public will respond to it as music lovers did some years...
...earned her the rating of the world's greatest coloratura soprano. She sometimes sang a little off pitch and she was not a good actress but her beautifully pure, light voice, her vitality and the lean, aquiline face of an Italian aristocrat got her $4,500 for a single concert. For a comparatively small salary she stayed with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company until...
...dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying on her world concert tours, the great Galli-Curci had all but dropped out of the headlines until last fortnight when she slipped into Chicago's Henrotin Hospital and had her "potato" carved out of her throat (TIME...
...program listed eight artists, performing works by composers from the 9th Century (Notker Balbulus) to the 18th (Gretry), but the busiest person at a concert given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black...
...Club, Bettis Field Airport, the Pittsburgh Symphony under Antonio Modarelli gave its first open air popular concert, drew such a crowd that its executive board met impromptu, immediately announced a second...