Word: concerts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn to honor the composer. In the cool, wide Romanesque gardens of Budapest's Karolyi Palace, concertgoers gathered to pay Zoltan Kodaly homage on the 25th birthday of his best-but not best known-work. First they heard the Budapest Symphony Orchestra galumph pleasantly through the concert suite from Kodaly's bright, bumptiously good-humored opera...
Last week the new Berkshire Quartet opened its season atop Music Mountain, a hilltop near Falls Village, Conn., where the Gordon Quartet had played every summer since 1930. Most of the audience that gathered in the white, green-shuttered concert hall were summer residents in the Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look...
...least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
...Bradley University at Peoria, Ill. offered a four-year course in "music-business," to teach students about the flora & fauna of Tin Pan Alley, and the higher mathematics of the concert industry...
...Appropriately performed by Manhattan's 70-piece Doctors' Orchestral Society, on the New York concert stage, was: 1. Dr. Herman M. Parris' The Hospital Suite...