Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's traditional free Esplanade Concert series begins tonight at 8:30 on the banks of the Charles River...
Undaunted, Goldschmidt was in his customary Seat 373 when the next Paray concert began. It was a brave, if foolhardy, decision. At intermission time Madame Paray rushed over to him and screamed: "How dare you come here? I won't stand for your presence!" Then she slapped his face. From all sides his old enemies-conductors, impresarios and artists-closed in, eager to settle old scores. They pummeled the hapless critic, and kicked him right into the street...
...thought his blasts quite severe protested that slaps and shoves were not a proper answer. "An offense to culture," huffed the dignified El Mercurio. The day after the Paray slapping, Goldschmidt did his cause no harm by writing that he had rather liked the first part of the concert but that he had to leave hurriedly at intermission time...
...patent leather to one of Russia's prodigy factories, then on to famed Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, like Violinists Heifetz and Elman. The Stern family settled in San Francisco before Isaac's parents decided to make a violinist of him. Says Isaac: "They took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career for me was always in somebody else's mind...
...Hall-or thought he was. Hiring the hall and paying for the trip cost his sponsor $1,500. Says Isaac: "I hired an accompanist, had three rehearsals. I should have had a tested program which I'd played on the road and had embedded in my fingertips. A concert like the one I gave is just a sales talk unless you're such a tremendous talent it sweeps everything before you; and I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart." The critics agreed. The New York Herald Tribune's critic wrote: "An unusually promising young musician...