Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week, but some of its members, led by its distinguished harpist, Bernard Zighera, are to give a most interesting chamber music concert in Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening. The program opens with a Sinfonie for Grand Orchestra (two violins, viola, bass, two oboes, two horns, two trumpets and tympani) written by the late eighteenth century Rhenish composer, Henri Joseph Riegel. Following this, there is to be a work by Daniel-Lesur, a member of the modern "La Jeune France" group, which is entitled "Five Interludes for Four Horns." The remainder of the program...
...Economic conferences, disarmament conferences, treaty revision conferences, battleship parleys, tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed by millions and all have spent time and wasted money with little to show for it. In short the nations of the world have talked, but few have acted in concert or with the aim of peace or concord uppermost in their respective and devious minds...
...with a simple dance number from The Big Broadcast, the Orchestra got warmer on Berry's syncopated satire of William Tell, warmer still when Jack Teagarden rose and blared trickily on his trombone. Critic-Composer Deems Taylor, hired as oral annotator of the program, proposed that the jazz concert be considered "a vacation from culture," warned: "You have heard scandalous things but worse are coming...
...Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz concert was over...
William W. Austin '39 will be the featured piano soloist when the Pierian Sodality gives a concert tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the State Teachers College in Bridgewater...