Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Players" who will now be known as the "Hotel Commander Orchestra" will still continue to give concerts in the University. Their fourth Common Room concert was held in Smith Halls last night from 6:30 to 7:30 o'clock. They have also been engaged to play during the first of the University teas held early this winter...
...Briand added an amazing postscript, rumors of which gave rise to the suspicion that Britain and France had concluded a formal entente. Briand's postscript : "Whatever the result, even should our hopes prove illusory, the two Governments would none the less be under the urgent obligation to act in concert either to ensure success by other means or to adopt a common policy so as to deal with the difficulties which would inevitably arise...
...Winnipeg, Fritz Kreisler cut his finger shaving. Some 3,000 waited in vain for his concert, while his fiddles lay still. Danger of blood-poisoning passed...
...Cincinnati an orchestra played without a leader.* It was an all-Schubert program and the season's first concert. Brilliantly, Conductor Fritz Reiner began with the Rosamunde overture, the C-major Symphony. After intermission he sent the players on stage alone for the Unfinished Symphony. The results pleased the keen ears of the Cincinnatians, the keener ears of Conductor Reiner...
Manhattan's Beethoven Symphony Orchestra struck financial snags last week. Unpaid, 102 musicians refused to rehearse. That payroll was finally met, patrons were reassured; but when they arrived for the next concert, placards posted outside told them it had been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...