Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another big problem is food. We are fed in the mess hall, not well but adequately. We cannot take food out of the mess, nor at present can we get K-rations if we miss a meal. So if I go to the theater or a concert, I have to miss dinner. This is probably good for me, but eventually some arrangement will have to be made to stock food here in the office. Please could Jack Manthorp or some other enterprising individual in the New York office examine the possibilities of sending in a major shipment of food...
...concert this week in Berlin, Berlin's famed 65-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra was led by a U.S. war correspondent in battledress. Besides being a war correspondent, the guest conductor was a Negro, born in British Guiana. The 2,000 Berliners and the 500 Allied soldiers in the audience found it quite an experience. They applauded warmly when the conductor led the orchestra through Weber's familiar Oberon and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. They broke into cheers, and called him back five times, when he gave them Berlin's first hearing of fellow-Negro William...
Ever since then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...
...again-under the wary eye of the American Military Government. White-helmet-ed MPs directed generals' limousines through cobbled streets. Inside the Festspielhaus some 50 hand-picked Austrians in dowdy evening clothes, were carefully segregated from U.S. soldiers who filled two-thirds of the auditorium. The concert began with s balcony speech by General Mark Clark. Then the Mozarteum Orchestra, including 27 musicians ousted by the Nazis, played Mozart, Lehar and Johann Strauss...
Weather & Words. In her office on Manhattan's good-music row, West 57th Street, Minnie Guggenheimer spends her winters planning programs, signing soloists; her springs, tapping people for money; her summers, worrying about the weather. During the concert weeks she studies the skies as closely as a New England fishing captain, and keeps a wary eye on an office barometer. Every few minutes on cloudy days, she telephones the Weather Bureau...