Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three programs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra climax the spring schedule of the Glee Club this week. Yesterday afternoon 125 members sang under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky at Symphony Hall; tonight at the regular Saturday evening concert they will appear again...
...concert on the steps of Widener by the Glee Club later in the afternoon will precede the main banquet that evening...
...become the President's unofficial court pianist. He played five times at Potsdam, has played at two Truman dinners in Washington since his Army discharge in January. This presidential patronage has made List a big box-office draw. He now gets up to $2,500 for every concert performance, is earning $7,500 a week in his first Hollywood movie (Bachelor's Daughters...
...President last week invited List and his talented young wife, Concert Violinist Carroll Glenn, to play in the White House, but List will have a hard time working it into his schedule. Next month he and his wife will fly to Prague to represent the U.S. in an international music festival. Then they will give concerts in Paris, Budapest, Berlin and Vienna, before taking a vacation in Connecticut. Says List, a very earnest young man: "I am looking forward to the summer as an oasis in the great sea of turmoil. Life is very exciting these days. So exciting...
Last week 71-year-old Fritz Kreisler sold his Strad for less than its assessed value of $80,000. The buyer was a onetime child prodigy named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...