Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Music Department Festival in honor of the opening of the new Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library will begin tonight at 8:30 p.m. with a concert in Memorial Church by the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society orchestra...
Although not all of the six persons represented in Monday's program proved themselves creators to be taken seriously, the experience was certainly profitable. The original function of the Composers' Laboratory, as providing a testing ground for the fledgling, was fully realized, and from this point of view the concert was a success...
Died. Guido Cantelli, 36, gaunt, brilliant Italian conductor, en route to New York for an American concert series and a dinner engagement with his friend and mentor, 89-year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...
...editorial board's primary function is writing editorials on College, national, or international questions. Its artistic side rests on play, concert, book, and art reviews. Its members also write short feature stories on topics of general interest. Cartoonists are especially urged to attend this meeting...
...these qualities into line with Beethoven's more appealing side. Beethoven was also the first composer to become a bourgeois hero and one of the first upon whom the stupefying epithet "great" was popularly bestowed, an event that forecast the beginning of the present sorry condition of concert music-during the last hundred years, no concert has been really classy unless it had some Beethoven or another "great" on the program. Toward the end of his career, Schnabel himself rarely played anything but Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and Brahms, but instead of calling them "great," he called them "still problematic...