Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George W. Bagby on a concert by famed Pianist Anton Rubinstein: "Well, sir, he had the blamedest, biggest, catty-corneredest pianner you ever laid your eyes on-something like a distracted billiard table on three legs. . . . Played well? You bet he did. When he first sit down, he peered to care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give...
...first in a series of concerts scheduled by the Harvard Music Club for the spring term, Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music, will give a program of piano compositions this evening in Kirkland House. Subsequent, informal, after-dinner concerts will be presented for the pleasure of House members on the average of three times a week through February, March and April. The Club also plans to present talks by well-known composers, play student works, and give a Bach festival concert group in March...
Last week, Soprano Moore and Prince Gustaf Adolf were fellow passengers on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-3 bound for Stockholm. She was booked for a Stockholm concert. He was returning to his family after a week's hunting with The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard. At Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport the plane, piloted by 54-year-old Gerrit J. Geyssendorffer, climbed 150 feet, stalled, rolled over, slammed to the ground and exploded...
Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad came to grips with the postwar world in Paris. For her first big postwar concert outside Norway (where her husband died in prison, charged with collaboration), she was booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos (TiME, Jan. 27). When Flagstad walked onstage, the crowd was silent a moment-then broke into applause. To more applause, and tumultuous cheers, she sang some Grieg songs, and excerpts from Wagner in German. Said Flagstad, heading for London: "My conscience is clear...
Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...