Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Straight French Face. The high commissioners disagreed. The battle between them began on the Petersberg, then shifted to the U.S. headquarters at Frankfurt. Unresolved, it was transferred by plane to Berlin, where the commissioners had a date to attend a Yehudi Menuhin concert. They had invited Lieut. General Vasily I. Chuikov, commander of the Russian zone, but Chuikov's seat was vacant...
...hundred members of the band were doused with warm, soapy water during an impromptu concert at Yale at 10 p.m. Saturday night...
...concert came to an abrupt end as band members beat a hasty retreat to the waiting buses...
...most part his scheduled songs were of a concert variety. The best of these was an unaccompanied number called. "The wandering of Old Angus." It is a poem set to a simple and haunting chant by Yeats. This and songs like this are the true ballads of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Mr. Ives does not sing them in his night club repertoire...
...many encore numbers, the last ones resulting from shouted requests, included most of the old favorites such as "Foggy Foggy Dew," "The Blue Tail Fly," and so forth. If there weren't rules against giving a concert on the Lord's Day in this state, I am sure the recital would have lasted into the morning. Burl Ives and the audience were enjoying themselves that much...