Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pennsylvania-born Blanche was set to be an office worker-until, at a ship's concert on a trip to Sweden with her Swedish-born parents, she found her career. To a fellow passenger, Marian Anderson's onetime accompanist Kosti Vehanen, her untrained mezzo-soprano sounded like unmistakable opera material. Vehanen shouted his enthusiastic opinion to anyone who would listen. When Blanche got home, her boss's parents agreed to finance her training...
...from Chopin's native Poland to Paris or to George Sand's island retreat at Minorca, and finally to the various capitals of Europe, when the fever-racked young composer breaks the hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
Highlight of the Glee Club's winter season will be its annual concert at Sanders Theatre Thursday night. Under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music, the group will present a program of classical choral music and new American works, headed by songs of Gershwin, Copland, Fine, and Ballantine...
Performing for the first time this term, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will team tomorrow with the Radcliffe Orchestra in their annual winter concert, starting at 8:30 o'clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building...
They finally got to Brussels and put on a concert at the famed Palais des Beaux-Arts-whereupon Oboist Evelyn Rothwell (in private life Mrs. John Barbirolli) fell off the Beaux-Arts' modernistic stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week...