Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pianist Gieseking was one of the last men in the world who could speak with certainty on U.S. attitudes. Where politics and art conflicted, the U.S. had not always been sure itself. During World War I, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (and scores of other U.S. concert halls) had stopped presenting the music of Wagner-only to feel shamefaced about it afterward. In World War II, the Met kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after...
Margaret Truman signed a contract to resume the musical career that she interrupted in December 1947. She would start practice in Manhattan next month, warm up with informal recitals next summer, step back on the concert stage next fall...
Walter Gieseking is now back in Europe, and the storm that blew up lover his political beliefs has subsided. Only a few hours before he was scheduled to give a piano concert in New York Monday night, the Justice Department decided to held him for a hearing, apparently to find out whether he was "an undesirable alien." Gieseking chose to leave the country. His departure has been cheered by the various groups that picketed Carnegie Hall before the scheduled concert, charging that the German artist was a Nazi...
Many of the groups who opposed the pianist's tour feel that as a Nazi sympathizer, Gieseking should not be able to profit from an American concert tour. This feeling is understandable, but again it leads to a damaging error. This position follows logically to the absurd proposition that American cannot buy goods made by any Germans who condoned the Nazi government. If Gieseking cannot profit from the sale of his talent, the many millions of Germans like him should not be able to profit either...
...also sounded a warning that any use of the basing-point system was likely to arouse its suspicions. FTC said it would suspect conspiracy whenever: 1) prices quoted by competing firms stayed uniform over any length of time, or were changed in concert; 2) competitors whose prices were unusually low were squeezed out or "disciplined" some other way; 3) companies habitually accepted a drop in sales rather than cut their prices...