Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
...then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side of his art; at a public concert which his socialite wife has promoted for him he digresses, in mid-concerto, into A Bicycle Built for Two. But at long last he climbs off his bicycle, finds himself, his genius, his proper mate (Miss Calvert) and, thanks to her promotional talents, plays a triumphant return concert...
Glee Club activities reach the year's climax this week, as the College Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society join the Boston Symphony Orchestra in three appearances at Symphony Hall, beginning with the annual pension fund concert tomorrow night at 8:20 o'clock...
...there was no time to elect to Class Day Committee, will bound along with 1) Triangle exercises--Class oration, poem, ode, and speeches; 2) lunch at the Houses; 3) parade to Soldiers Field for the Yale baseball game; 4) buffet supper in Kirkland House; 5) orchestra and glee club concert; and 6) dancing in the Houses...
...basis, should eliminate much of the confusion that now results from hasty, ill-prepared arrangements for solicitation and ease frayed nerves on the part of both the solicitors and the solicited. Activities promoters would be assured of facilities, and students would know just where to go to buy their concert tickets or return their opinion polls...