Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Leopold Stokowski shook his frizzy blond locks over it for the first time. Audiences did not always actually like the new music; but there was the exciting possibility of a new Stokowski gesture, a Stokowski gadget, a lot of Stokowskitalk. A typical performance was when, at a broadcast concert, he conducted in a glass booth, controlling the sound to his own satisfaction. It has since been learned that the dials he twiddled were fake ones, hooked up with nothing at all by radio men who were taking no chances. But the customers loved it, especially the fluttering ladies; they...
Biggest night of the Stadium season came during last week, the final week when 17,000 people jammed their way into the Stadium (a record) and 4,000 more were turned away grumbling. It was the first concert ever dedicated entirely to the works of George Gershwin. Alternating on the podium were Conductor Coates and William Merrigan Daly, radio and Broadway conductor, onetime managing editor of Everybody's Magazine (Walter Lippmann was his assistant in 1914). At the piano were Composer Gershwin and able Oscar Levant...
...said was inspired by her garden. They urged her to write it down. Arranged by Radio Orchestra Conductor William Merrigan Daly, with lyrics by one Lester O'Keefe. "In My Garden" was sung publicly last week for the first time, by Tenor Richard Crooks in an NBC concert...
...only will the polar yearlings have the same instruments; they will use them on concert. At prearranged hours of certain days all the stations will be doing the same thing. Thus at midnight. 2 :00 a. m., 6:00 a. m., 8:00 a. m.. noon. 2:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m. Greenwich Mean Time on Aug. 9-10, Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber...
Prices: $1.50 top ($3 for the final concert). A 175-piece orchestra, each player getting $20 (at previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...