Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of light music by the pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, and a group of songs by the Gold Coasters Glee Club, assisted by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society, were the attractions of an Adams House concert last night...
...type of concerts which we shall hear is determined by the taste of the audiences and of the musicians themselves. Public attitude may vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection...
Harvard and Wellesley will combine their orchestras under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the regular conductor of both orchestras, on Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the Music Building' at Wellesley. The concert will include Hadyn's "Symphony in D-Major," Beethoven's "Piano Concerto," and two of Brahms' Hungarian dances...
...staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1910 was a brilliant young reporter who was so sensitive that a bad concert which he covered one night gave him a splitting headache, forced him to quit work early. Ten minutes after he left the building the McNamara boys blew it up, killing 21 men. That was the first occasion when illness brought luck to Willard Huntington Wright...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...