Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German and Italian arms, was expected to join up with the dictators. Instead of having a weak, friendly Spain to her south, France would now have a strong, militarized, probable enemy to contend with. Democratic France, in short, would be bounded on three sides by Fascist powers working in concert...
...from a bettelhooper.* Ordering music a la carte, as music lovers in big cities do, takes expert picking & choosing. Because they want to be sure of the quality of their imported music, small-town U. S. music lovers have long bought it in packaged lots from large, nationally organized concert chains...
Today, 80% of U. S. small-town concert music is controlled by two large Manhattan organizations: Columbia Concerts Corp. and NBC Artists Service. The small-town business done by these two organizations (which do not compete, but divide the field between them) totals about $1,000,000 a year...
...autumn Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society gave its $1,000 annual prize "for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer" to blond-mustached David Van Vactor of Evanston, Ill. Last week Composer Van Vactor conducted his prize-winning Symphony in D at a Philharmonic concert in Carnegie Hall, a piece of sound musical grammar & syntax, with considerable Sibelius influence. Incidentally, it made critics wonder again at the complete anarchy of the music market. Sample prices paid other composers : Schubert for his song Die Post: 20?; Frank Silver, for his and Irving Conn...
...heels of Swingster Benny Goodman, who had just finished another genteel Carnegie Hall venture (TIME, Jan. 23), trod last week another classically-minded swingster. At a concert by Manhattan's year-old Bach Circle, Negro Swing-Pianist Teddy Wilson delicately pecked an 18th-Century harpsichord. Playing Bach's Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings with Harpsichordist Yella Pessl for a partner, Harpsichordist Wilson forgot all about his pedals, stomped out Bach's rhythm with one foot...