Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serge Koussevitzky is to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fourth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tomorrow evening a night o'clock. The concert opens with Tchatkovsky's Overture-Fantasia, "Romeo and Juliet," composed rather early in the great Russian's life and at the suggestion of his friend and follow musician Balakirev. It portrays the struggle between the two families with its tragic outcome, and uses different tonalities to express the various episodes in the story. Also on the various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2...
...enough last-minute information to squeeze them through any kind of examination, a job usually accomplished in three tense, packed hours. About half the students feel called upon to patronize a tutoring bureau at some point in their careers. Last week the Harvard Student Council, which traditionally acts in concert with University Hall, solemnly took heed of an old and flourishing institution for the first time by appointing a four-man committee "to determine whether the tutoring schools have grown out of their natural proportion and whether any effort should be made to curb their activities...
...same year Paris dadaists gave a "Festival" in the respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
Thirty-five members of the Pierian Sodality will journey to Pomfret Connecticut tonight, where for the first time they will present a concert to the Pomfret School...