Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House. They had paid their own way, come by plane and car, dodged reporters constantly, and were in a high state of twitters. After a sedate lunch, they chose their rooms (two shared the Lincoln bed), brought Mrs. Truman up to date on home matters, dressed for an evening concert at Constitution Hall to hear Pianist Eugene List (see Music...
About four years ago Eugene List gave a concert in Constitution Hall, which lost money. Wrote a Washington critic: "He makes me nervous." List was just one of half a dozen promising young pianists...
Then he was drafted. He spent a year as a G.I. misfit, in the Transportation Corps, before he got a transfer to Special Services as a one-man entertainment unit. One night at a G.I. concert in Munich he got special traveling orders. It turned out to be the Potsdam Conference. When List played from the Tchaikovsky concerto, Stalin jumped up to propose a toast in vodka, and List had a chance to talk to him. "I said 'I like Tchaikovsky,' and he said, 'Good, I do too.' I said, 'I played the first American...
...orchestra is under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, former president of Pierian and now dean of the New England Conservatory. Tomorrow night's concert given in co-operation with the Radcliffe Choral Society, will include two movements of the Haffner symphony, the Rosamunde Overture, sections from Handel, and a suite of dances by Douglas Moore...
...Glee Club left Cambridge Tuesday morning arriving at Saratoga Springs, New York, that afternoon. After the concert there for Skidmore College and a night spent in a local hotel, they departed for Elmira, New York, and thence to Rydal, Pennsylvania. Returning to New York, the club stopped at Briarcliffe Manor and Poughkeepsie, and finally returned triumphantly to Cambridge late Sunday night...