Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serge Koussevitzky, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing the Bach B-Minor Mass together in the largest concert of the year at Symphony Hall tomorrow. The Mass will be sung by 170 members of the Glee Club and 130 members of the Choral Society, and they will be accompanied by 60 pieces of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Saturday evening concert at Symphony Hall was a most pleasing two hours of unpretentious and gay music except, of course, for the fervent piece of Sir Edward Elgar. And oddly enough, all the composers whose operas were presented are dead except...
Next week's concert will be a rare combination of Scheenberg's "Pelleas and Melisande", the "Unfinished Symphony" of Schubert, and Strauss' "Tyl Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...
...that José Iturbi's ambition reached higher than the piano. There he gave 15 recitals in three weeks and still the Mexicans wanted more. He itched to try conducting. Because there was no assembled orchestra available he put an advertisement in the newspapers. For his first Mexican concert he hired 40 players. By the time he reached the 29th concert he had no musicians under his baton. When he returned to New York in the summer he conducted the Philharmonic in the Stadium series (TIME, Aug. 21). Twice the audience rose to cheer him. But Iturbi well knew...
...regular Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was the occasion for the debut of Mr. Walter Piston as composer and conductor. Mr. Piston's Concerto for orchestra has obviously been inspired by the Brandenburg concerti of Bach for its general form of using the various choirs of the orchestra as collective soloists in the contrapuntal development of several themes. The opening theme is indeed very similar to that of the third Brandenburg. The harmonic development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes...