Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which would visit and be backed by several communities. They approached Composer Lamar Stringfield, a native Carolinian flautist teaching in the University music department. Among his teachers were Georges Barrere and Henry Hadley (conducting). The North Carolina sponsors asked Mr. Stringfield to assemble an orchestra, conduct an experimental concert at Chapel Hill...
...Pops concert this evening at 8.30 o'clock in Symphony Hall will be dedicated to the New England Conservatory of Music...
...fashion to say that Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" started the ragtime craze; that the blues came in when William Christopher Handy took "St. Louis Blues" North; that George Gershwin took jazz into the concert rooms. No one ever accused Composer Kern of starting anything. He has simply written a great many songs of which people never seem to tire, polite, modulated tunes reflective of the musical study he put in in Germany. And he was the first to use saxophones popularly, in 1913.* Smoothly played they seemed to suit his music...
...France in mid-Atlantic. Behind the doors were famed Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 15. Every day while Yehudi played, Toscanini turned pages. One evening Conductor Toscanini presented Yehudi in the first-class salon as sole performer in the ship's concert. The boy had consented to play on condition that everyone aboard be permitted to attend. Proceeds: 40,000 francs...
...program for the Pops concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: "Greetings to Bangor" March, R. B. Hall; "Poet and Peasant" Overture, Suppe; "Liebestraum", Listz-Herbert; "II-Trovatore" Fantasia, Verdi; "Finlandia", Sibelius; "Blue Danube" Waltz, Strauss; Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt; "Mile. Modiste" Selection, Herbert; "Invitation to the Dance", Weber-Berlioz; "Stars and Stripes Forever", Sousa...