Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After her smash debut in a. New Dance Group recital, Pearl danced in Manhattan nightclubs, where she was a sensation, and as Sal and Dahomey Queen in Showboat. But after eleven months, she quit the show for more study. Since then, she has made concert appearances throughout the U.S. Wrote the New York Times's sober dance critic John Martin: ". . . It would be unfair to classify her merely as an outstanding Negro dancer, for by any standard she is ... outstanding . . . her dances are all fine and authentic in spirit, well composed and danced with great technical skill as well...
...Fred in his twangy Pennsylvania Tone-Syllables. He can make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...program is 15 minutes of casual rambling. He tosses out wisecracks, parodies travelogues, concert ballads and popular songs, rasps his offbeat lyrics and thumps out his own piano accompaniment...
...ardors of conducting too strenuous; he has gone to Switzerland to recuperate." They recalled Klemperer's physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946); he is still partially paralyzed, and can play the piano only with his left hand. Yet Klemperer conducted a concert in Interlaken two days after walking out of the rehearsal, and he is scheduled to return to Salzburg to conduct a Mahler symphony this week...
Under the direction of Boris Goldovsky, famed lecturer and concert planist whose knowledge of operate technique is well known, to his Saturday afternoon radio audiences. Tanglewood is offering a unique chance for young conductors and directors to train. "If a pianist needs a piano to practice, how can one expect an opera director to learn without actors!" explains the cherubic Goldovsky. Equipped as he is with a large group of competent student singers, he is able to give his embryo conductors and directors their necessary workouts...