Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting on Tuesday evening, The Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected officers for the coming concert season. Jan LaRue '40 will succeed Seymour Bunshaft '39 as President...
...young business of radio, the oldest continuous network commercial program is the Cities Service Concert (age 12), selling motor oil and gasoline. Last week Cities Service signed up for its 13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank...
...camps: classical and popular. Most of what U. S. listeners hear (in Chinatown theatres and restaurants) belongs to the popular type. But last week Manhattanites got a chance to hear samples of China's classical music played by the highest-browed of China's highbrow musicians. The concert was sandwiched in as part of a show given by the Chinese Cultural Theatre Group, a troupe that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic...
...Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
...high-brow music's biggest business is towering, barrel-chested Arthur Judson, president of Columbia Concerts Corp. He knows a sharp from a flat because he was once a violinist and small independent impresario. And he soon saw that it would be a bright idea to hook up concert music with radio's enormous publicity. In 1930 he merged with four of his competitors and sold Columbia Broadcasting System a half-interest in his new corporation. Today he is music's biggest wholesaler. In the music world he is quite generally regarded as the big bad wolf...