Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Glee Club will give the last of its Yard Concerts tonight on the steps of Widener at 7 p.m. Assisted by the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, the H.G.C. will give the program originally scheduled for the Yard Concert which was rained out two weeks...
Pattern. The dwindling demand for Van's talents also followed a pattern familiar to other young instrumentalists: one big prizewinning season followed by relative obscurity. Most musicians blame the concert-management system for this state of affairs far more than they do the public. Between them, Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corporation and Impresario Sol Hurok control 90% of the soloists and instrumental groups touring the country. To the beginning artist, the Big Three offer irresistible bait: a chance to tour the country for pay and to build a reputation. But the reputations are built in New York...
...shocked by the hard facts of community concert life. His net income dropped to less than $3,000 a year (from a high of $8,000). He piled up $7,000 of debts, mostly loans that his parents made for him from the Kilgore National Bank. He took to such money-saving devices as playing classical music for his supper in Manhattan's Asti Restaurant...
...that if I go in one day and want to play Clair de lune, they'll have to record it." Last week RCA Victor gave him one of the fattest contracts ever offered a young artist, with built-in guarantees for "longterm security." Within hours Van's concert fee jumped from $1,000 to $2,500 plus, shortly became a deal whereby Cliburn gets 60% of the receipts. Dallas outstripped everybody else by booking a concert from which Van stands to walk away with $9,000. Said the Dallas Symphony's President Mrs. Samuel Shelburn with...
...Tuesday night, after listening to the Yard Concert, the Russians will visit the CRIMSON. They will live in M.I.T. dormitories during their stay in Cambridge...