Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphant singing swing through Southeast Asia, velvet-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson has played to capacity houses at all stops, wowed audiences with her versatile concert program-German lieder, Italian classics...
...hopes that she would reap good will for the U.S. along with the applause. Last week Singer Anderson reached New Delhi and learned that she was already a sellout attraction. Music lovers had scrambled to snap up the 1,200 available tickets that filled New Delhi's biggest concert hall to capacity...
...sanitarium in Rye, N.Y. and, after staying overnight, left without notice. A widely publicized nine-state alarm went out for him as "dangerous and insane." Klemperer spent his life savings to hire a 70-piece orchestra and Carnegie Hall to prove that he was not. Though the concert went well, for years he was unable to get a regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted...
...grey-haired matrons wearing long-sleeved dresses, two young men in black sweaters, a middle-aged woman who never used her lorgnette, and a Senior in formal attire who left early, along with some six-hundred ordinary people attended last night's joint concert by the Radcliffe Dance Group and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The evening began and closed well and there were several delightful numbers in the middle, but it was too long...
...because it brings in the dollars." She was old enough to know that he was not the musician he claimed to be. When her father took over her training completely, she started to play music she did not understand with false phrasing, exaggerated rhythms, distorted emotions. A Town Hall concert climaxed the tension between father and daughter. The critics called her "a burned-out candle...