Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piano Playhouse (Sun. 12:30 p.m., ABC). Guests: Concert Artist Jesús María Sanroma and Jazz Pianist Teddy Wilson...
...burst through the woods and into the open-air concert area, smashed the stage, set fire to the camp chairs lined up around it and burned the sheet music. In the surging tumult that followed, at least eight automobiles were overturned, scores of women ran screaming into the woods for safety. The veterans threw up hasty roadblock's but new arrivals piled into the fight until the battle grew to a slugging, shouting riot involving some thousand persons...
...Communist-line Civil Rights Congress, sponsors of the concert, quickly denounced the sorry affair as an attempt to "lynch Robeson." It was hardly that. But it was an example of misguided patriotism and senseless hooliganism, more useful to Communist propaganda than a dozen uninterrupted song recitals by Paul Robeson...
Said one visitor from Los Angeles, who had managed to breakfast on a symphony concert, lunch on T. S. Eliot's new play, The Cocktail Party (see THEATER), and sup on Verdi's A Masked Ball: "I feel as if I had eaten too much plum pudding. But the awful thing is I want more...
Other eagerly awaited festival newcomers were Berlin's famed Philharmonic and one of the men who would conduct it. Globe-trotting Eugene Goossens was no stranger to Britain;* he was born there, and had conducted many an opera, ballet and concert there over the years. But some festival visitors knew him more recently as the man who had led the Cincinnati Symphony for 16 years, then left the lush musical pastures of the U.S. two years ago to pioneer in the musical wilderness of Australia...