Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gothic chapel, as the sound of bells from no direction that one could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells. The stone tower...
...Monday and Tuesday evenings, December 12 and 13, the new Memorial church will be the scene of the annual concert of Christmas carols that is given by the University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral society for the benefit of the Cambridge visiting Nurses Association. A matinee concert will be given on one of the days in order to make possible the attendance of a larger audience...
...Harvard Instrumental Clubs will present their first concert of this season on next Friday evening at Roxbury Latin School. The program will be in a light vein, comprising semi-classics, marches, spirituals, and popular jazz pieces...
...fence, bear to it a small, cable-attached object, then retreat to wait, watch, listen. Once he put his '"trap" on the limb where a song sparrow came each dawn to serenade his nesting mate; once near a beer barrel which a whippoorwill had chosen for its nightly concert stage...
...polonaise in the lounge of the S. S. Samaria to convince immigration officer, that she was qualified to enter the U. S. as an artist. News columns headlined the story but few people took account of it until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed...