Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoist conducted the Orchestra in the first American performance of this in Symphony Hall three weeks ago. He composed it in 1921, writing the words and score of the opera. The composer's greatest work is a suite entitled "The Planets", which he may play at a future Cambridge concert. The concert will close with Tehaikously's Symphony No. 6 in B minor...
Said New York's Mayor Walker: "If we had a few more Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would...
Eliot House will hold a dinner on Sunday evening, at which Mr. Steuart Wilson will be the guest of honor. Following the dinner, Mr. Wilson will sing some songs in the Common Room. He has been on a tour of America which started with his concert here two weeks ago in the Paine Hall of the Music Building, soon after his arrival from England where he lives. The program will include mainly English, German, and American melodies and perhaps some arias from Bach...
...when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that...
...much inspiration as hard work", said George Gershwin, well-known composer, as he came off the stage of Symphony Hall Saturday night. He had just finished playing his new concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which he played for the first time in public at the regular Friday evening concert of the Orchestra. The demand was so great to get tickets for the two regular concerts that a precedent was set by having a special Saturday noon performance, the first noon concert ever played in Symphony Hall, as far as is known...