Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum of Art to overflowing, were huddling on stairs, pressing into small rooms and remote galleries. Thousands sat in the shadow of suits of mail, under priceless canvases, close to marble sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances by a 65-piece symphony orchestra...
David Mannes first came into the Metropolitan Museum to conduct promenade music for receptions. When, in 1918, Director Edward Robinson asked him to give a concert for soldiers & sailors, the Mannes Concerts began. Only 781 people went to hear him. He then got his musicians from the New York Symphony, now gets them from the Philharmonic and other orchestras, pays them regular union rates...
...second concert in the Hotel Vendome by the Flute Players Club will be held on Sunday afternoon. This chamber music group is offering a most intersting program in which Casadesus, the Fresh pianist, is to be soloist.SHAN-KAR Art of the Orient...
most Hollywood productions starring opera singers of established reputations, Soprano Lily Pons's second cinema vehicle is really less a moving picture than a recorded concert with illustrations on the screen. As such it is satisfying entertainment. Vivacious little Diva Pons yodels a nameless vocal exercise, an adaptation of Panofka's Tarantella, an Arthur Schwartz tune called Seal It With a Kiss and, for the inevitable climax on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, the Una voce poco fa aria from The Barber of Seville, in which she turns loose the fastest high C yet released...
...Tuesday evening in Jordan Hall, the new chamber music group organized by Bernard Zighera is to give its second concert. The remarkable program opens with Haydn's "La Reine" Symphony and continues with a Concerto for Strings written by the modern composer Jereszy Fitelberg. Bartlett and Robertson, two piano artists, are to play Bach's Concerto in C minor and Mozart's Concerto in E flat, and the concert concludes with d'Indy's Concerto for piano,l flute, cello, and string orchestra. This promises to be a very unusual and worth-while evening...