Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joining the Orchestra in the concert is the Radcliffe Choral Society. Works on the evening's program include three movements from Schubert's Fifth Symphony, and selections of Bach, Couperin, and Weinberger...
With hopes that the band concert will bring University undergraduates in to the contribution ranks, Mrs. Brewer. Blackall, national chairman of the fund, announced, "If the Harvard Band's box-office appeal is what I expect, we will follow it up with another concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City shortly after the first of the year...
...crowded old Caracas Municipal Theater began to clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...
This year, with a $300,000 Government subsidy, he imported 26 musicians from Italy, France, Belgium. He raised salaries. He laid down a program of five two-hour rehearsals a week. Last week's concert, first of a series at popular prices (60?-$1.80), showed what could be done. Never had the works of Beethoven, Massenet and Moussorgsky sounded so sonorously in Caracas. At intermission, flanked by members of his revolutionary Junta, President Betancourt hustled backstage to congratulate the maestro. Cried Betancourt: "Magnifico...
...fourth in the series of programs will be on American jazz and, as tentatively planned, will consist of a concert by Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Wild Bill Davison, Pops Foster, Freddie Moore, and J. P. Johnson. Next on the schedule is the radio, then literature, painting, the dance, and films...