Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four concerts have been planned for the Glee Club on its annual spring trip to New York, which will start Thursday, when 63 men will embark on the boat in time to arrive for the first concert on Friday night...
Between the acts of "East Lynne." which will be given by the Winthrop House Dramatic Club on April 22 and 23, the House Glee Club will give a concert. The Club has been rehearsing for a month and the program will consist of semi-classical music, Negro spirituals, and folk songs. Ernest Sachs '38 is director, and William W. Austin '39 accompanist...
...full of furious, hard-driven music, because it is pathologically concerned with adultery and blood, many consider the opera less appealing than Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Others find its eery, passionate songs unforgettable. These were more than grateful when Artur Rodzinski announced he would put on a concert version of the opera with the Philharmonic-Symphony he has been guest-conducting all month (TIME, March 8), looked forward to hearing Gertrude Kappel sing again the part she had made a masterpiece four seasons ago. At the last moment, however, Soprano Kappel was taken sick, could not leave Berlin. Soprano...
Elektra is a difficult opera in which to make a debut. It is doubly hard on the concert stage, without costumes, scenery or action, with the orchestra playing full tilt on the platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...
When the opera ended the audience sat stunned a moment, then rose and cheered for ten minutes, louder and longer than any Manhattan concert audience had done since Toscanini left last spring. Much of that applause was meant for Rosa Pauly...