Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's best musicians. But no women. Explained he: "If the lady is not well-favored, the male instrumentalists do not wish to play near her. If she is well-favored, they can't." Sir Thomas, whose blonde young wife is both well-favored and a concert pianist, stroked his snowy tuft and quickly added: "Not that I don't think women are good musicians...
When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
Martha Graham and her company will perform in another "special event" for the symposium, as will the Collegiate Chorale of New York, with Robert Shaw conducting. Announcement will be made late of the details of the concert programs, which will be open to as many of the general public as can be accommodated...
Died. Moriz Rosenthal, 83, famed Polish concert pianist who played for kings and emperors in the glittering days of the Strauss waltz, was the last of the famous pupils of prodigious Pianist Franz Liszt; in Manhattan (see Music...
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (Erica Mormi, violinist, with Artur Balsam pianist; Victor, 6 sides). The nation's outstanding woman violinist plays the familiar dinner-concert favorites, Nos. 1, 5 and 6, and the less often heard Nos. 7, 8 and 17. Performance: excellent...