Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musician, and he never was. He was often open and fun-loving among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history (up to $9,000 for a single broadcast). He had little interest in money as such, but proudly insisted musicians should be well paid...
...unlike most other concertmasters in the U.S., Polish-born Richard Burgin gets two or three weeks a year on the podium. Last week he led the Boston Symphony at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, in a concert of Vaughan Williams, Beethoven and Shostakovich, which he delivered with craftsmanship and no melodrama whatever. "I know what I want, I know how to tell them what I want, and they give it to me," he said, adding as an afterthought: "just as they give it to any other conductor, only maybe to me a little quicker...
Frances Steiner 1G and Sheldon M. Lubow '60 won the concerto concert last night, sponsored by the Pierian Sodality of 1808. The two winners were chosen out of seven entrants, each of whom performed one piece for the judges...
...Sodality is now planning a concert to be given on March 8 at Sanders Theater, which will be built around the two contest winners. Miss Steiner and Lubow will probably perform the piece which each played last night...
...Even if the notion of a world authority is still very remote, it may well be that the much less ambitious conception of a concert of powers, of the great powers of the world, being prepared to sit around the table and seek compromise solutions for all the disputes and difficulties that arise, will emerge again...