Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Beecham called off a scheduled concert of British music, explained: "When it comes down to the anvil of reality, there never has been a public for British music. Let us face the fact...
...movie studios, which have first call on his musicians, are his biggest worry. His favorite Hollywood story: "Only a tympanist was present for all four rehearsals before an important concert. When the conductor congratulated him, he said 'Thank you, Maestro-but I'm afraid I can't make the performance...
...even gave it a few licks while he was in the Austrian army. Its successful Berlin premiere in 1925 surprised Berg as much as anyone. He had expected to be booed; instead he got a dozen curtain calls. (The U.S. first saw Wozzeck in 1931; Manhattan audiences heard concert excerpts three times last season...
...most ambitious paintings in the new show was The Little Concert, a huge (9 by 12 ft.) monochrome which he had delivered still wet to the galleries. The London Times thought that it was "full of recklessly mingled details." In the portraits, every detail counted. The elaborate flowered background lent a heavy air of luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...