Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that their habit of appropriating any watch they can lay their hands on is a pet German peeve, were more hurt than annoyed. Said one much-decorated Red warrior after the concert: "I did not think it was at all funny. If these people only knew that I shall be able to buy two cows with a good watch back home...
...York and the impeccable taste of Bruno Walter to the loud vulgarity of the Boston Symphony is an experience that puts a critic's heart into his work. I say this not out of any malice but rather as a reaction to the most poorly conceived and ill performed concert Symphony Hall has heard in several years. Unfortunately, Dr. Koussevitzky's return to the podium marked the disastrous evening...
...Pianist Rudolf Serkin, son-in-law of Adolf, rehearsed in Manhattan for a West Coast concert appearance before a European tour...
...Seventh Veil (Sydney Box-Universal) is an English picture which sets out to resolve the romantic dilemmas of a lady concert pianist. It uses the relatively new medical technique of narcohypnosis as an excuse to use the old movie technique of the flashback. What is known in the trade as a "woman's picture," The Veil examines the frustrations of a basically good girl who is besieged by three far-from-perfect suitors. U.S. audiences may note that the psychiatric theme used in Hollywood's recent Spellbound has been more intelligently filmed by the British...
...concert promoter in Chicago put it this way: "When I found out it was Hindemith's 50th birthday I said, 'Let's bring the guy here and cut up the cake out here.' I knew it wouldn't mean any cake at the box office but for heaven's sake he's one of the world's foremost musicians, and unless someone takes an interest in what he's doing the public will never know his work. What are we going to do, wait until his 150th anniversary...