Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William G. Eliot, founder, to have the institution given its present name. Last February began celebrations, which last until June, of the 75th Anniversary of the inauguration of Washington University (April 1857). There were speeches, three Washington lunches in Benish's Cafe, a Washington's Birthday concert of the Men's Glee Club, the Women's Glee Club, the Chapel Choir and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Messages of congratulations came in from President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, many a university president. Among famed alumni of Washington University are Taftian Secretary of Commerce & Labor...
When Arturo Toscanini finished conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week the demonstration took the same emotional turn as the scene in Vienna 108 years ago Toscanini had given a great concert, perhaps the greatest he has ever given. But more, the audience had not seen & heard him for weeks. He had been sick (TIME Dec. 21). His conducting arm had failed him. He had had to cut short his season go back to Italy for treatments. The rumor that he might never come back had never quite been downed...
...first performance of the Ninth Symphony was a financial failure. Beethoven's reward from the King of Prussia, to whom he dedicated it, was an imitation diamond ring. The concert last week, except for a few $250 boxes, was sold out the day it was announced. The Philharmonic Symphony sent back $10,000 in checks, turned thousands away from the boxoffice. At the hall when receipts were added it was found that Toscanini had earned some $26,000 for his jobless brothers, only $1,000 less than Paderewski raised in Madison Square Garden, which seats 18,903 against Carnegie...
Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...
...pronounced "zhee-lee"), self-styled "world's greatest tenor," let it be known last week that he for one would not go on singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at a reduced salary. Gigli made his reputation at the Metropolitan before he started coining money in concert. He, it was revealed, was the one artist who would not voluntarily take a 10%, salary cut last winter (TIME, Nov. 30). The Metropolitan said: "He not only refused to make a concession of a single cent, but in addition criticized and ridiculed the artists who had reduced their salaries...