Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the University Band are feverishly racing against the clock this morning in an effort to retrieve the world's largest playable bass drum in time for tonight's Dartmouth Concert...
...last night, John P. Page '59, William D. Rinehardt '59, the Band's truck, and the drum were 100 miles east of the Indiana-Ohio state line. They are scheduled to arrive at Memorial Hall by 7:45 p.m., a scant 30 minutes before the concert is to begin...
Drum Vital for Concert...
...much as a third of the orchestra was sick at one time, probably with the Eastern malady known as "Delhi belly," but all performed manfully. At an open-air concert in Baghdad, a band of yelping dogs competed so successfully that at the concert's end Dorati fled from the podium in a huff, a case of dogs beat...
...enthusiasm of audiences and critics (said the Times of India: "An experience of a lifetime") made sickness and occasional discomfort seem unimportant. Again and again listeners were astonished that such expertly played music could come from a "provincial" U.S. city. At the Karachi concert, Pakistan President Iskander Mirza was so moved that he asked the orchestra to repeat the Pakistani national anthem. Said a State Department official: "They have done more to impress people with the U.S. than anything that has come out of the U.S. since...