Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Litvinoff and Russia could be attended to there was a concert in the East Room. Naval and military aides (in full-dress uniform because as Mrs. Roosevelt said "they look better that way and it doesn't cost anything to put it on") ushered the guests to the spindling gold chairs, set 20 rows deep. On the platform was the famed gold piano. Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the musicians who had played for her in Albany. They were the Morgan Sisters, a harp-violin-piano combination, who came out dressed in crinoline to play a 50-minute program which...
...joint concert annually held on the eve of the Harvard-Yale game will be presented by the glee clubs of the two colleges at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Sanders Theatre...
Sunday was an unusually quiet day for Mrs. Roosevelt-friends for lunch and supper, then the night train for New York, where she attended an Iturbi concert...
...audience rushed forward for the encores to see just how she did it. Few people noticed a bald, dark-skinned little man who sat half-hidden behind the Town Hall organ watching her play her encores with Svengali-like intentness. He was her father who might have been a concert violinist if the War had not intervened. When Ruth was 2 he bought her a $10 toy piano. She wanted a "big one." He sold a diamond ring and got it for her. At 5 she had a repertoire of 200 pieces, could transpose them into any key. Josef Hofmann...
...have as a teacher in the U.S., the reception given him as a composer testified to the fact that he is no longer regarded as terrifying or mad. Serge Koussevitzky has invited him to conduct his music with the Boston Symphony. The Pro-Arte quartet gave Schönberg concerts at Harvard and Yale last week and the students did not seem to mind. The New York League of Composers gave a concert and a reception which half the musical somebodies in town attended. Most of them looked bored or completely baffled but they listened politely to two string quartets...