Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of a series of consecrated programs-played the first two symphonies and the triple concerto. In Vienna a monument was completed and the canvas shroud stripped off with fitting ceremony. In Manhattan at the Metropolitan Opera House the Society of the Friends of Music gave for its first concert of the season, the Missa Solemnis...
Under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts, Miss Margaret Deneke. Choirmasters of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will give a lecture-recital on "Dance-Forms in Music" at 8.15 o'clock tonight in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
...Francisco, the Symphony there broadcast for the first time. It was an experiment, Conductor Alfred Hertz had announced; he demanded a guarantee fund of $25,000 to see it through. Came the Sunday concert, and radio fans, thousands of them, stopped their Sunday putterings to listen in, voted the experiment a success. Managers scouting around the darkened Curran Theatre, saw great patches of vacant seats, thought differently, gave thanks to the few loyal subscribers and the Standard Oil Co., who had furnished the guarantee...
...Rochester, the Philharmonic Orchestra gave its opening concert. At just the appointed time Conductor Eugene Goossens, trimmest of all conductors, sent floating through the spaces of the Eastman Theatre the honest harmonies of Weber's Oberon Overture, the enchanted woods of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi, Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano, new to Rochester, stately, breathing the musty grandeur of old cathedrals and shufffling monks. Rochester applauded it courteously. Rochester saved its loudest approval for Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, after its awful pessimism had finally been led by the cellos and the big basses into a despair...
Last week, Dr. Stokowski issued a statement: ... "I now see clearly that until we can have the necessary equipment of an especially constructed stage, no progress can be made. . . . The necessary stage arrangements for sinking the orchestra to a lower level. . . and invisible, do not exist in present concert halls. . . . This is the ideal I am working for. Will anyone help me to attain...