Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily an admirer of your tart journal, I should like to register a protest. ... I refer to a footnote concerning Lawrence Tibbett which was appended to an article headed "Concert Business" (TIME...
George Gershwin, famous composer-pianist and known the werld over for his "Rhapsody in Blue," will give a concert at Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, January 14. He will have with him James Melton, well-known radio tenor, and also Leo Reisman's orchestra of 38 pieces, directed by Charles Previn...
...camp-meeting ground is now a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bideawee, Restawhile, Dewdrop Inn. There are several faintly classic concert & lecture halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat...
...started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
...blizzardy afternoon ten years ago Paul Whiteman asked New York music critics to listen to an "experiment in modern American music." The critics expected nothing but jazz which they thought had no business in a formal concert hall. But Whiteman had a surprise in store. He played George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and the critics forgot their prejudices. As a result Gershwin started writing for symphony orchestras. Symphonic jazz became epidemic and ''experimental" concerts a Whiteman specialty...