Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike for more pay, last week featured gifted young (27) Thomas Schippers conducting Cherubini and Prokofiev symphonies. The Kansas City Philharmonic, lucky to make its 25th season despite a big deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus...
Almost all the seats in the Salle Gaveau were empty, but the atmosphere in the elegant Paris concert hall was tense. Behind the scenes, 38 nervous young men and women from a score of countries polished their bulky cellos, flexed their hands, and spat on calloused fingers. In the balcony sat 14 distinguished cellists, including France's Pierre Fournier, Britain's Sir John Barbirolli, Russia's Mstislav Rostropovich. It was the Concours International Pablo Casals 1957, organized to honor the great cellist, and it proved to be a surprisingly thrilling East-West match...
...celebrate its hundredth anniversary this year, the Glee Club has arranged an extensive concert program. Haydn's Creation will be performed with the Pierian Sodality on December 6, and Bach's Mass with the Boston Symphony on March 9. During spring vacation, the Club will give concerts in several South-western cities...
Edwin H. Greenebaum '58, president of the orchestra, announced last night that Burgin had been forced to cancel the engagement because of a confusion over the date of the concert...
Over 400 tickets have been sold for the concert, which cannot go on without the drum and the truck, let alone Page and Rinehardt. Page is property crew manager of the Band; Rinehardt is assistant manager. The truck is required to transport hundreds of pounds of Band equipment to Sanders Theatre, where the concert will be held...