Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monaco's Prince Rainier left his small pond on the Mediterranean, journeyed to a bigger pool at Gstaad, Switzerland for a vacation with Princess Grace. There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
Esplanade Concerts. Each evening at 8:30 for the rest of this week members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra give a free concert in the Hatch Memorial Shell by the banks of the Charles River. Take subway and blanket to Charles Station...
...organ recital by William Sprigg, organist and assistant professor of music at Hood College, Maryland, will conclude the summer school music series on Thursday August 15th. Sprigg will play works by Hindemith, Messiaen and Vaughan-Williams and will also perform his own composition, Sonata number 1. The concert, which will be held in the Memorial Church at 8:30 p.m., is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
Sanders Theatre rang with the sounds of fine singing yesterday evening. The occasion was the annual concert of the Summer School Chorus. For the third successive year the Chorus was trained by Harold C. Schmidt '32, professor of Music and choral director at Stanford University; and for the third successive year the results were remarkable...
...offer a prayer: "We beseech thee, O Lord, cast thy shadow before us on this night of decision. We pray for those who will disagree. Enter into their minds and hearts, grant them enlarged understanding." A few minutes later came the board's announcement: acting in concert, school boards in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Winston-Salem (115,800) and Charlotte (158,800) had approved "on their own merits" certain Negro applications (total: 12 out of 51) for transfer this fall to all-white schools...