Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony will be the featured selection of the State Symphony Orchestra's concert in Sanders Theater Sunday evening...
Looking much like an extremely competent and self-effacing butler, a tall, baldish German walked upon the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall one day last week to give the first important recital of the U. S. concert season. Pianist Walter Gieseking, absent from the U. S. for two years, had already established himself as a prime interpreter of the subtle iridescences of Claude Debussy. Long before he reached Debussy (which he admits he plays "the right way . . . without any noticeable motion of the fingers"), Gieseking made his audience aware that in two years and more than 200 European...
...Serge Koussovitzky will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theatre this evening in its first concert in the Cambridge series. The program is a varied one consisting of works by Prokofleff, Strauss, and Boothoven...
...such as "a blood-curdling night-mare," "a musical obscenity," and "a noisy, nerve-destroying, heavy piece of work" were recklessly hurled at the composer. Since that time, the real humor in the piece has come to be more appreciated and the clever orchestration has made it a familiar concert vehicle...
Sunday next at 8:30 o'clock Fritz Kreisler will be at Symphony Hall to offer a program varying from Bach to De Falla. And that evening the State Symphony Orchestra features Tschaikowsky's Second Symphony in another Sanders Theatre concert. The reaction to a first hearing of this group tends to be surprisingly pleasant, and an added point of interest this week will be the world premiere of "Epic Poem" by a Harvard graduate, Arthur Korb '30. Alexander Thiede will conduct...