Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the concert, the Minneapolis Symphony's conductor greeted a five-year-old backstage visitor. Patting the small, curly head, the conductor asked: "And what do you expect to do when you grow up, little man?" The boy replied: "Direct a symphony. I'll conduct your orchestra...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, will conduct the Pierian Sodality's presentation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in a concert at Paine Hall in the Music Building, Thursday, April 19, at 8:15 o'clock. The orchestra will feature Bach's rarely heard "Italian Cantata" in its New England land premiere...
...nobody's surprise, that issue was Poland. At Yalta, the Big Three had agreed in principle to concert their policies on the new Poland, replace Russia's Lublin lackeys with a government which would be fairly representative and suit the U.S. and Britain as well as the U.S.S.R. After a month of negotiation in Moscow, Molotov had not given an inch to British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. They wanted an honestly reorganized government, representing all Poles except those hopelessly hostile to Russia. Mr. Molotov was willing to enlarge the government...
Father Finn had qualms about his two-hour concert of classic sacred music (Palestrina, Vittoria, Brahms, Mendelssohn); he thought it might be "a little on the gay side." To rehearse the sisters he had to modify the hardy rehearsal technique he had developed during 40 years with boys' choirs (stretching the singers out on table and piano tops for breathing exercises): "Of course, in the case of the sisters that just isn't done. . . . [They] are dedicated to an unworldly life. No Delilah business, you know...
...final Boston Symphony Concert in New York of the season, the Glee Club will repeat its performance of the Testament of Freedom in Carnegie Hall. At all three performances of this work, Koussevitzky will also play Shostakovitch's Eighth Symphony, introduced into this country a year ago last summer, the second of a trio of symphonies depicting Russia...