Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took her first formal music lesson. At 16, she gave her first important concert, at a Negro school in Atlanta. From then on, her life almost ceases to be personal. It is an individual achievement, but, as with every Negro, it is inseparable from the general achievement of her people. It was the congregation of the Union Baptist Church that gave Miss Anderson her start. Then a group of interested music lovers gave a concert at her church, collected about $500 to pay for training her voice under the late Philadelphia singing teacher, Giuseppe Boghetti...
LIKE MANY A MISSOURIAN I GROAN TO NOTE YOU MENTION [TIME, DEC. 2] "PACKING 2O,OOO KANSANS INTO THE KANSAS CITY PHILHARMONIC CONCERT HALL...
...Stunt. After studying in Germany, she made her concert debut in Chicago, then sang with the San Carlo and Chicago Opera companies. In 1943 she sang a New York recital of American songs by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage and others. Says Janet Fairbank: "People thought it was going to be a nut stunt. When I started, the American songs that were sung were mostly the 'I Love Life' type. I think I made people realize that there were good American songs. I always try to stay away from hackneyed things. Unless you are a Lotte Lehmann...
Modern music of Russia, Chile, and the United States will be represented in the concert, which includes works by Stravinsky, Orrego, Haieff, Taima, and Douglas P. Allanbrook '48. The last two composers will play their own aorks, while members of the music Clubs, as sisted by two singers from the Longwood School, will perform the remainder of the selections...
This is the first of a series of concerts to be presented by the Music Clubs this year in order to give public performances of modern works rarely heard around Boston. Include in these plans is a choral concert which will offer several world premieres...