Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among those elected: famed Violinist-Composer Georges Enesco (First and Second Rumanian Rhapsodies), who received news of his election while preparing for a New York concert...
...came a cacophony of sweet and sour notes: the too-familiar sweet notes of Brahms and the too-familiar sour notes of an empty cash register. Conductor Karl Krueger had signed up with the Detroit Symphony. Sponsors debated whether to try out a new conductor or cancel the next concert season. In the end, they hired lanky Efrem Kurtz. Since that time, three years ago, they haven't had a moment's regret...
Kurtz found only 700 subscribers on the books for a ten-concert season. Today 46-year-old Efrem Kurtz runs one of the most financially successful symphonies in the U.S. His orchestra earns 85% of its annual $198,000 budget at the box office and by radio contracts (most major orchestras are lucky to bring in 70% of their keep). The orchestra plays more than 70 concerts a year, many of which are broadcast...
...people heard the rising young San Antonio Symphony, 4,000 the recently reorganized Dallas Symphony. The Oklahoma City Symphony played to the largest audience (5,000) in its history. The Columbus Philharmonic, which grew from semiprofessional to professional rank this season, made $1,800 profit on one pop concert. Radios and records have sharpened U.S. ears for symphony; they have also forced local orchestras to raise their standards...
...Concert Hall cuts directly from "masters," eliminating the "mother" and "stamper" discs used for mass production of commercial records. Concert Hall Society's first releases-Prokofiev's Second String Quartet by the Gordon String Quartet, and Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata and Our Town Suite by Leo Smit-were high quality recordings, but nothing to make other record companies change their ways. Concert Hall's virtue was its decision to record unfamiliar music...