Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York friendships of which she is particularly proud are with Arturo Toscanini and Geraldine Farrar. Toscanini, who has small patience with most singers, goes to all her performances. She did not recognize Farrar when first she saw her in the front row at her last year's concert. The oldtime singer was listening so intently, so sympathetically that Lehmann found herself addressing every song...
...seven he took up the study of the violin, followed, when he was ten, by the piano. When a football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut in 1929 as Tonio. the clown in Pagliacci. His fine full baritone made him a favorite in Chicago where he sang with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera Company for five seasons. As his operatic fame increased...
...family, fell in love with her, Anitra did not return the emotion until young Pianist Strakosh burst on her view. But alas, the new fashion of "unhappy endings"' dictated that Anitra should be carried off by a sudden hemorrhage, with Strakosh absent on a triumphant concert tour, and just at the moment when Papa Bruno at last conquered the impasse of his unfinished theme. Physical to a pungent degree, Author Hurst handles her characters with caressing fingers that are impatient of clothes, is sometimes betrayed into descriptions so accurate that they seem hermaphroditic fancies: "He beat his breasts. Literally...
...seventh Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was dedicated to the memory of the late President Charles William Eliot, the father of these local concerts. For this occasion an orthodox programme of Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert, President Eliot's favorite composers, was played. Again we enjoyed the invigorating Third Brandenburg Concerto, a favorite of all musicians and music-lovers. If we should desire to quibble, we might suggest a bit quicker tempo for the last movement, but let it suffice to say that Father Bach himself could hardly have given a more full-blooded and flowing performance. The Unfinished...
...conjunction with the orchestra of Colby Junior College, at New London, New Hampshire, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will give a radio concert over WBZA from 2 until 3 o'clock this afternoon...