Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jovial Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Negro jazz-band leader, back in Manhattan after a two-month concert tour in Europe (TIME. June 12), declared the Prince of Wales had missed a train to hear his orchestra play in Liverpool. Said he: "Next time I saw the Prince of Wales was with a party of grand people in London. He says to me: 'I stayed over in Liverpool to hear you play.'Well, sir, what a fine spot for me to tell him, 'You're tellin' me, Prince, with 5,000 people banging on the doors...
...throwing stones at him. I'd talk to the Devil himself if I thought there was a chance of making hell cooler. These few fierce local troubles will seem to the rest of the country like some one blowing a fire siren in the midst of a symphony concert!" After his speech General Johnson was invited to take the coal strike into his busy hands, try to settle it before it swept out of the State into the Midwest fields. He agreed. Buttonholing Governor Pinchot...
...clock--Concert. Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin. Frank W. Ramseyer, Jr., and Josephine Baldwin Bates, violinist, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
Great arc lights flooded the City College Stadium in New York last week. Some 12.000 people clambered up the bleachers. Dozens more dotted the roofs of the dingy apartment houses nearby-to look down into the football arena which had been converted into summer concert grounds for the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their...
Died. Josef Rosenblatt, 51, world famed synagog cantor and concert singer; of a heart attack after completing a film for the American-Palestine Fox Film Co.; in Jerusalem. An orthodox Jew, he would not remove his vast beard even when offered $3,000 a night to sing in La Juive for the Chicago Opera Company...