Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making its first trip for this term, the Glee Club will sing at Wheaton College tonight, with Bach's "Magnificat" as its main selection. They will also appear tomorrow at Connecticut College in New London, and present a concert in Sanders Theatre March 26 in co-operation with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Once a year the Friends of the Boston Symphony-some 1,000 Back Bay Brahmins who pay the Symphony's deficits-get a concert free. To make things intimate, Boston's vast Symphony Hall is curtained off halfway back. Last week, at the annual club concert, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky led the orchestra through a typical free-treat program-a bit of Mozart, a bit of Berlioz. Then he shooed the orchestra off stage, began a short speech in Russian-coated English: "Our Boston Symphony discovered Dorothy Maynor. Today we discover another great singer-Carol Brice. I hope very...
...Brice, a tall girl dressed in a simple black dress. She waited quietly while Koussevitzky scampered out front to listen. Then she sang Handel's My Father and Where Shall I Fly?; two lieder and a rhythmic Hall Johnson spiritual. Her singing brought the house down. After the concert, Koussevitzky led her to the foyer, where the ladies of the audience were drinking tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches and acclaiming her. Said Koussevitzky, who used to be a cellist: "Always I try to make the cello play like the human voice and now . . . her voice is like a cello. . . . Such...
...biggest in Maggie Teyte's 56 years-like the old days, more than 30 years ago, when she was America's frivolous "operatic sweetheart" and sang Mimi and Melisande in almost every major U.S. opera house. In 1937, when she returned to the U.S., concert and opera managers snubbed her. Last year Concert Manager Austin Wilder brought her to New York, discovered that he had the biggest box-office attraction in Town Hall's 25 years. After her first concert a critic wrote: "A Sinatra demonstration at the Paramount is a feeble thing indeed...
This week, after 14 packed U.S. concerts, Maggie Teyte returned to England to rest, to lose ten extra pounds which she blames on rich American food, and to cut some more records. ("Most people say I'm better than the records. On records they don't see me being lively, gay and expressive.") The day after her final concert, tickets were already going well for three more Town Hall concerts next fall. Said Maggie: "Americans are getting tired of their cheap music. They have had their crooning and their jazz. The youth [of America] have made my comeback...