Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he details the feelings of a flautist resting for 74 measures of a Haydn symphony in the knowledge that he must enter on the first beat of the 75th, Author Johnson gives little practical advice in his lean volume. He suggests that none but home-players thoroughly enjoy concert performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Erne Kleine Nachtmusik (whence his book's title), which began, for him, with "the sudden, awed, incredulous realization that they had hit it, yes, by George, they hit it all together and all on the key-what a moment...
...orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects an orchestra of 100 out-of-work musicians, friends of her father's, finally prevails on Stokowski himself (in person) to conduct her 100-man orchestra in a grand finale concert...
...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...
Before they were out of sight of Wake Island, rolling seas separated the two boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...concert during the St. Louis convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians appeared venerable Negro Composer William C, Handy, who wrote Memphis Blues and St. Louis Blues. For the latter he was honored with a plaque, but confessed he liked Memphis Blues better. However, he said, "When a song's made as much money as St. Louis Blues you're bound to like...