Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However they may be inspired, Russian composers do well to comply with governmental wishes since musical performances are as strictly supervised as industry under the Five-Year Plan. Concerts and operas to be approved must serve one of two purposes. They must exert an indisputable cultural influence, hence the current enthusiasm for the classicists. Or they must promote propaganda. Since jazz does neither, it is never played. Madame Bufferfly may be given at the opera house but extremists reconcile themselves to it on the ground that Pinkerion. the naval officer who deserted Butterfly, was a capitalist. All religious music...
...Philadelphia, in Manhattan and over the radio, Conductor Leopold Stokowski had his Philadelphia Orchestra play all-Russian programs last week. Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are composers comfortable now on any U. S. concert program. But along with them Stokowski introduced two strangers: Serge Nikiforowitsch Wassilenko and A. S. Illiashenko...
...Jubilee will begin at 9 o'clock, with a dinner intermission at midnight; at this time the Freshman Instrumental Clubs will give a concert under the direction of F. P. Whitbeck '35, who is also arranging the program. Dancing will end at 3 o'clock...
With a slight change in administration all this could easily be eliminated. Gallery seat tickets could be placed on sale a week or more before the concert in some such manner as are those to the French movies shown at the Geographical Building. Any men who fail to secure tickets in this fashion might obtain standing room at Sanders Theater on the night of the performance. The last concert of the year will be played on April 28. If some plan, such as that outlined above, were then carried into effect and proved successful, there is little reason...
Four times this year, a shivering line of music lovers has braved the varied offerings of a New England winter evening for more than an hour in order to secure gallery seats to the Symphony concerts in Sanders Theater. The spectacle has become as frequent as it is vexatious and unnecessary. The inevitable inconvenience discourages many from attending; for those oblivious to physical discomfort, the wait is galling in its futility. Moreover, when the crowd is finally admitted and allowed to stand in the vestibule for a half hour before the start of the concert, its impatience and indifference...