Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus of 20,000 voices, and 150 clattering firemen, which had been assembled for a Peace Jubilee Concert...
Five years ago Nazis purged Amsterdam's world-famed Concertgebouw Orchestra of 18 Jewish members, packed them off to a Czechoslovakian concentration camp. Last week 15 of the 18 Jewish musicians were back in their chairs for the symphony's first concert since the liberation...
...prelude, Amsterdamers had done a little Dutch-cleansing of their own, kicking out five Dutch collaborationists. They had also removed the blue paint which the Germans had smeared over the names of "non-Aryan" composers on the concert-hall frieze; now the names of Mendelssohn and Mahler were again visible...
Then he joined the Society of Timid Souls, a three-year-old, self-help group, which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...
...Determined to satisfy his audience, Abe went to work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...