Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked about his music. He had no favorites: "Our works are rather like our children, children that are grown up and married. Once completed, they start on a life of their own." The Boston Symphony scheduled one of the children, Symphony for Strings, for its first major Berkshire concert next week...
...opening series of concerts include a performance of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D minor on July 24, and the "Harold in Italy" symphony by Berlioz with William Primrose as viola soloist. These will be under the direction of Dr. Koussevitzky, while the final concert of this series will follow the baton of Leonard Bernstein, who will lead the Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No. 7 and Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps...
...when all nine of Beethoven's symphonies and two of his piano concertos will be presented under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...
...anywhere in the U.S. So chunky Max Reiter hopped a bus for Texas. He had run out of money by the time he hit Waco, Tex. (pop. 56,000), but he had a letter addressed to two sisters who ran a china shop. To them he pleaded: "Just one concert let me give." They helped dig up money and musicians. Four weeks later Max Reiter conducted his first U.S. performance, with a makeshift Waco Symphony. San Antonio heard about it and invited him to form an orchestra there...
...sulphurous meeting in Washington last week, 50 of the nation's biggest mule dealers cussed in concert as only men who have mingled with mules can cuss. They mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...