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Word: concerting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chamber Music Concert, Adams House Lower Common Room. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Merry-Go-Round | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

Sixty men will leave tomorrow afternoon, and return Sunday night; they will perform only one concert, and be entertained by the Air Force the rest of the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Flying to Maine | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

...bell-ringing enthusiasts admit the difficulty of giving a concert which would meet the approval of Cambridge ears. Because the zvon is based on a six-tone Eastern scale, it cannot render the gentle strains of "Fair Harvard" or other melodious selections played by ordinary carillions...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Russian Bells: Culture, Cacophony | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

...zvon's Cambridge premier was Easter Sunday of 1931. When Andronoff came up to practice for his opening concert, students raged, neighbors protested, and it is said that one day he left the tower just before a policeman appeared to stop the din of sextatonic harmony...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Russian Bells: Culture, Cacophony | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

Andronoff's concert itself proved disappointing. The big bell, supposed to be audible for 20 miles as it called the pious to prayer across the Russian steppe, could not really be heard across Cambridge. From close by, however the noise was all too audible, the larger bells almost completely drowning out the smaller ones...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Russian Bells: Culture, Cacophony | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

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