Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were proud of their small, separate cultures. They flocked to opera and the ballet, and liked to reminisce about the time Robert Casadesus gave a concert in Riga, or Boris Chaliapin sang at the National Opera. Now, there are only a handful of theaters left, most of them Russian, and the people are in no mood to attend them. Related a refugee: "On June 13, 1946, I was in Vilna† and saw, with my own eyes, 3,000 men being transported from the central prison camp to the central station. They were to be shipped...
...Boston this week, the great Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her first U.S. concert appearance since the war. It was easy for Boston, as it had been for London, Paris and Milan, to succumb to the persuasion of Flagstad's magnificent singing. She had shrewdly chosen an Easter program of Beethoven, Grieg and Brahms-and five U.S. composers. But the audience had not forgotten the roles that had made her famous, and shouted for Wagner. On the fifth encore she gave...
...team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles that this woman has ignored...
...Productions, a committee of undergraduates engaged in promoting theatrical productions and celebrity appearances, announced yesterday that it will feature Josh White, "America's favorite ballad-singer," in a concert to be held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium Friday...
...much younger pianists are just beginning but already show signs of great talent. Jean Helmatien Benda, a pupil of Edwin Fischer, although only in his mid-twenties, has an astounding technique. His only concert of this year in Geneva consisted of a well-planned and well-played program of Beethoven and Liszt. Far more astonishing is a 16-year-old Austrian, Friedrich Gulda, who won last fall's International Music Contest in Geneva hands down over 150 other pianists. He is still studying--and his technique shows it occasionally--but from the point of view of interpretation of a wide...