Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June, on his 14th tour of South America, he drew 25,000 persons in an open-air sports arena, the largest crowd ever to assemble for a concert in Buenos Aires. South American women fill his dressing room with flowers, but North American women are not so demonstrative, Said Arrau: "They are very far away. It is very difficult to make them become earthly...
...prove to the world that he was not crazy, Otto Klemperer spent his life earnings hiring a 70-piece orchestra for a performance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, May 15, 1941). The concert was a critical success-but no one would give him a steady job. Four West Coast orchestras let him make guest appearances, but that was all. Conductor Klemperer returned to his Los Angeles home, fretted away five years...
Last April he went back to Europe. In Rome he conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
Symphonic Showman. Last week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...
...first concert next month will be in Hollywood Bowl. Says Cugat: "That's a laugh, isn't it? When I was here playing concert violin I was fully qualified to conduct in the Hollywood Bowl. . . . But I couldn't get in to see the secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands...