Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Lowell House Musical Society Mr. Ralph Kirkpatrick will present a concert Friday evening. The program will be in two parts; the first being six selections on the harpsichord, and the second two compositions by Bach for the clavichord...
With expenses reduced to a minimum it costs a good $600,000 yearly to run an orchestra like the Philharmonic. If the Philharmonic sold every ticket for every concert, it would take in approximately $400,000. Revenue from radio, program advertising and the present endowment would then make up the balance. But ticket sales this season will amount to something like...
That was 50 years ago. When she arrived in Zakopane, Modjeska met Ignace Jan Paderewski, a slender, golden-haired youth who had begun to doubt whether he could ever achieve a concert career. Modjeska helped him with money, made him give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski's wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME, Jan. 29). Last week appeared the first important biography to tell how Paderewski, encouraged by both the Helenas, became the great pianist and patriot he is today...
Most of the world's great pianists have been well launched on their careers at 20. At that age Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...
Though Marina Yurlova now dances for her suppers on the concert stage she once did a more dangerous pas seul. Readers of Cossack Girl may find it easier to read than believe, but Publisher Macaulay insists Authoress Yurlova's hairbreadth narrative is "authenticated by documents.'' No less credible than Joan Lowell's notorious Cradle of the Deep, Cossack Girl is a thriller of the same order, but better written...