Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Friday's Symphony concert dramatized for the music-lovers of Boston the essentially two-sided nature of their famous orchestra--its superb accomplishments in certain fields and at the same time its doubtful musical taste, unchangingly puzzling from year to year...
...which made the frequently-performed opus dramatically effective to a point few would have considered possible, thus bringing the bewilderment of the audience to full circle. Just what makes the Boston Symphony what it is will probably never be known; all you can hope when you go to a concert is that you hit them on the upswing of taste and performance...
Coincident with the announcement of a projected joint Harvard-Yale concert, to be held in Sanders Theatre the night before the Eli-Crimson football tussle, the Glee Club yesterday released the results of its quarter trials which have just been completed. The members of the Glee Club, 233 strong, were individually rated on a percentage basis. An excellent rating went to 80 men, 47 were considered good, while 97 were listed as only adequate...
Amidst all the talk about blues singers, jazz artists, and Koussevitzky lovers, the concert to be given November 10 by the Budapest String Quartet has been almost ignored. This is a great pity, for no instrumental organization in this country quite compares with the Budapest in consistent quality of execution...
...appearance of the quartet this year, but such an announcement should not frighten the audience away. The average group which appears once in Boston allows all the slovenly playing it suppresses elsewhere to come out, realizing that the majority of its audience will not know any better. But this concert is to be sponsored by the Pierian Sodality, and therefore an audience of some artistic susceptibility may be present...