Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Approximately 80 new men, largely freshmen, were accepted by the Glee Club after the first voice trials last night. Rehearsals of the full membership will start Monday in preparation for the first concert of the year to be given as part of the Symphony Hall program on Thursday, October 5. To the festivities honoring William Lawrence '71, celebrating his fortieth year as Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, the club will contribute three numbers, "To Thee Alone Be Glory," "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite," and "Prayer of Thanksgiving...
This year the annual Harvard-Yale concert has already been scheduled for November 24. Also the spring trip will be taken as before with the New York concert to be held in Town Hall on April 7. In the traditional spring concert with the Boston Symphony, the club will restore to its program a favorite not sung last year, the B Minor Mass from Bach...
Last year by invitation from the President Lowell the Sodality gave a concert on Class day, in addition to the seven joint concerts already scheduled...
...Manhattan the Philharmonic Symphony invited Iturbi to guest-conduct it in a concert in Lewisohn Stadium. Eagerly he agreed, for there is one musician in the world whom he idolizes: Arturo Toscanini. An audience that filled all but the extreme end seats turned out to see what this black-haired, electric little maestro of the piano bench could do with a baton in his hand...
...Mexico City Orchestra was the first he has publicly conducted, Iturbi's metamorphosis is no sudden miracle. He likes to tell how he led a music academy band in his native Valencia when he was 12, how he has prepared long and secretly for the podium. During his concert tours in the U. S. since 1929 he has spent most of his spare time in New York studying orchestra scores, watching Toscanini and others conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony. Says Jose Iturbi: "I am like Diogenes. All my life I search for an honest musician. I find Arturo Toscanini...