Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the chance came. Wagnerian Soprano Marjorie Lawrence (Australian-born, but a U.S. star) turned up in Berlin to sing for U.S. troops. With her as the attraction, the U.S. Military Government hastily sponsored its first concert for a mixed Allied-German audience. She agreed to perform without pay; so did the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and a Rumanian conductor named Sergiu Celibidache. The audience was mostly U.S. brasshats and diplomatic high-hats, along with some carefully screened Germans...
...Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's (Decca, 8 sides) New 52nd Street Jazz (Victor, 8 sides). Condon's old guard (Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield, Pee Wee Russell and others) doggedly play The Sheik of Araby, Atlanta Blues, etc., Chicago style, circa 1928. The initiated will prefer it to Dizzy Gillespie's "bebopping" in the 52nd Street album...
Professor A. Tilman Merritt, chairman of the Music Department, will supplement the concert with a discussion of Hindemith's works...
Rearing out the discovery that classical music is preferred for evening programs, the favorite listening periods on WHCN are from 8 to 9, when the Concert Master is being aired, and from 10 to 11 with Symphonia...
...come in for an awful beating in a series of film biographies. Following the other-world treatment given Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Metro wisely took another tack and put the life of Jerome Kern on the screen much as it should be presented in little more than concert form. If there is a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger and his (Kern's) stagestruck...