Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annunzio who wanted music for his Martyre de Saint-Sébastien to give to his mistress. Dancer Ida Rubinstein. Debussy's idolaters like to call Saint-Sébastien the great French Parsifal. Stage performances are never given to bear out their belief. The few concert performances have made it seem like the product of a tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works was a Berceuse Heroïque, dedicated to Belgium's King Albert. In his illness Debussy had become obsessed...
...evasion? Elizabeth Rend Mitchell is not in the courtroom. A large matronly woman with two grown children, she cannot be made to testify against her husband, may not be called to testify for him. Long an amateur pianist she once orchestrated a Chopin Polonaise for a Philharmonic-Symphony Concert in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. In a Press interview two years ago she diffidently admitted that she and her friends were trying "to make music a part of life again...
...Davison '06, conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, was presented a set of 36 volumes of the English Madrigal School, in appreciation for his work in directing the club for more than 15 years, at a meeting held last night after the Yard Concert. The presentation was made by G. H. Acheson '33, the president of the club. E. R. Lee '34 is the newly elected president...
...Davison will take his sabbatical leave of absence next year but will resume his position with the Glee Club after he returns. Last night was the last big concert he will direct for more than a year. During his absence G. W. Woodworth '24, assistant conductor of the club, will assume Dr. Davison's duties...
After the concert there will be a joint meeting of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society at which parts of the Brahms Requiem will be sung...