Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake Placid Club will be the scene of the first concert performance of his work, but Louis Gruenberg will not be there. The Club bars Jews not only as members but as guests and amplifies this prohibition in conventional, unmistakably English spelling: "The invariable rule is to make no exception for refined and agreeable Hebrews...
...Baritone Frank Chapman, the personable, amiable husband of Contralto Gladys Swarthout (TIME, June 8, 1936). Tibbett is still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard Bonelli (made second vice president) to Paul Whiteman. But the Guild could not obtain a union charter, for it trespassed on the field of the Grand Opera Artists' Association of America, which had been chartered by the A. F. of L. a year before...
...Unless they go to Asbury Park or Bradley Beach, the 35,000 summer residents of Ocean Grove go without ice cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys would be inacceptable...
Asked to give a concert, mostly of U. S. music, for the benefit of the Musicians' Union, Iturbi arranged his program with time out for solos by Radio Singers Lucy Monroe and Jan Peerce. Half the program was to be broadcast by NBC, and Iturbi understood, or so he said later, that during that half he would lead the orchestra. When he arrived at the Dell, however, Iturbi found that Singers Peerce and Monroe were about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor...
...gifts. Though he is an earnest student, a meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...