Word: concertizing
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...largest chambers was the venue for grand balls, complete with candlelight and festive decorations. In those days visitors rode into the caves in horse-drawn carriages. With the installation of electric lighting a century ago, the largest and arguably most beautiful chamber became a 10,000-seat concert hall, attracting some of the world's most famous performers, including legendary Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Today, small electric trains carry visitors on a 5-km ride to Postojna's heart; from there the journey is on foot, through what British sculptor Henry Moore described as "nature's most wonderful gallery." Watch...
...council—which authorized the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) to begin negotiations with nine artists at its Feb. 29 meeting—originally had rapper Busta Rhymes as its second choice behind Wyclef Jean...
Times Square was conceived, really, in 1895, when Oscar Hammerstein, whose grandson would write The Sound of Music, opened the Olympia Theater, a gilded concert hall and playhouse that covered an entire city block on what was then called Longacre Square. The kind of man who once composed an opera in 24 hours on a bet, Hammerstein was also the kind who sold 10,000 opening-night tickets for 6,000 seats. Disappointed ticket holders broke down the doors. Within three years, he was bankrupt. But the idea of the neighborhood as a center of entertainment spectacle lived...
...council—which authorized the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) to begin negotiations with nine artists at its Feb. 29 meeting—originally had rapper Busta Rhymes as its second choice behind Wyclef Jean...
...that year, HCC and the council had lined up Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 to perform at the Bright Hockey Center. Delays in signing the contract stalled the start of ticket sales and the administration ultimately cancelled the concert because it was concerned that not enough tickets would be sold in time...