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Word: concertizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up from the Basement | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

That was nine years ago. Since then, the First Piano Quartet has crisscrossed the U.S. on concert tours, made dozens of recordings for RCA Victor (their Chopin Favorites album is No. 3 bestseller among classical albums), was co-winner of this year's Musical America award for the best instrumental ensemble on the air and helped NBC win the Peabody award for "good music." Last week, the First Piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up from the Basement | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Quartet finally got around to its first Carnegie Hall concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up from the Basement | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up from the Basement | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRV Gives Italian Opera This Evening | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

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