Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program for tonight will feature a rebroadcast of an Eddie Condon jazz concert, the Mozart Piano Concerto number 17 in G major, and ballads by Burl Ives...
...Milan, 79-year-old Arturo Toscanini, Wagnerian and symphonic conductor and renowned antiFascist, reacted to the news by canceling a benefit concert he was scheduled to give this week in Paris. Later he canceled a London engagement, offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses on 2,800 tickets. In protesting against "Italy's humiliation," he echoed the frenzied lamentations of Italian politicians and editors, one of whom wrote with rare unconscious humor: "Now the stab in the back has been repaid...
Fielding has also signed up Jeanette MacDonald, and has his heart set on getting Deanna Durbin ("My inspiration came when I was little more than a child and saw Deanna Durbin in 100 Men and a Girl"). Fielding is a former child prodigy who made concert violin tours at eleven, studied under Joseph Szigeti, spent the war staging concerts for the London Philharmonic in 70 provincial towns. As a budding impresario, he always bills himself above his artists. Last week, for another Kostelanetz concert, he modestly gave himself second billing to royalty. His posters read: "In the gracious presence...
Three days earlier 57-year-old Tito Schipa (pronounced skeepa) made his first operatic appearance outside the Axis belt since he left the Metropolitan in 1941. He did Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
Perhaps Clark's greatest asset is his personal charm, his biggest failing an insatiable appetite for publicity. (Once, during a concert in Salzburg, he suddenly appeared in his box bathed in bluish light while the orchestra played ruffles & flourishes.) But he has managed to turn even this fault to good use. Whenever the Russians are too adamant he calls in the boys of the press. He has found that Moscow is sensitive to U.S. and world public opinion; on occupation matters-such as Russia's recent-land-grab attempt in Burgenland-the Reds sometimes bow to hostile press...