Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shura Cherkassy, with the Santa Monica Civic Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). In its search for the unplayed and unrecorded, Concert Hall has exhumed an inferior, uninteresting piece of Tchaikovsky. Performance: fair...
Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
When the annual Esplanade Concerts opened Tuesday evening, 25,000 heat-weary Bostonians turned out to stretch on the cool grass, commune with the innumerable pretty girls, as well as to hear the pleasant, undemanding music played by Arthur Fielder and his Boston Symphony group. Just as the concert began, a full moon rose from behind Boston's buildings, and from the Charles came a light breeze to mitigate the day's blistering heat. As the sky grew darker, and the trees lining the river became black silhouettes, any regular concert-goers present probably were irritated by the rise...
...tapping their feet inaudibly on the grass, waving their hands to and fro, or humming partly under their breath. Fielder left classic decorum to the academicians of music, and played with liveliness and humor that did justice to the intention of almost every one of these composers of light concert music. Only the sturdy grandeur of Sibelius' "Finlandia" suffered from the rendition...
...Concert-goers may take the subway to Charles Station or drive there by way of Charles Street Bridge...