Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critic Olga Samaroff of the Post compared the symphony to a gargantuan bull-fiddle that a medieval potentate had created-an instrument requiring a team of asses for transportation, a squad of musicians for performance, a thing distinguished only by freakiness. The stately Times disdainfully neglected to mention the concert in its critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception...
Thirty-three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Arthur Fiedler, Conductor, will give a concert in the Museum of Fine Arts, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The entire museum will be open from 7 until 11 o'clock, and no admission will be charged...
...clock, the Glee Club, with Dr. A. T. Davison '06 conducting, will give a concert...
...Governor General presents his compliments. He desires, Mr. Paderewski, that at your concert tomorrow you will stand and remain standing on the platform when His Excellency enters, and until he is seated...
Soon to the concert of M. Paderewski came the Governor General, but found no Pole upon the platform. Nettled, His Excellency marched to his seat, stood frigidly awaiting some apology or amend from Pianist Paderewski who, just then, walked upon the stage...