Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Violinist Virovai made his first bow to a U. S. audience. Few of the Philharmonic-Symphony concertgoers in Manhattan's weather-beaten Carnegie Hall had ever heard of him. But before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts. When it was over, self-possessed little Violinist Virovai was given a terrific hand. Critics straightway placed him in the front rank of present-day fiddlers, acclaimed his appearance as one of the most exciting debuts...
Last week on a beautiful Indian Summer afternoon, Composer Krenek's latest opus, a musical pie called Piano Concerto No. 2, was set before Boston's dowagers and debutantes at a Boston Symphony concert in Boston's Symphony Hall. Stocky Ernest Krenek himself sat hungrily up to the piano. Conductor Koussevitzky was ill, so it fell to Concertmaster Richard Burgin to dish it up. When the pie was opened and the bats began to squeak, the audience could hear that Composer Krenek had been true to his atonality, and in his own fashion. A dozen Bostonians...
This super jam-session was designed not primarily for its small U. S. audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...
...next year gave them an added glitter. To the music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers with the precision of the Radio City Music Hall's famed Rockettes. For their grand finale they charged the length of the ring. Their director, Major D. A. Grant, explained that training the horses to keep time with the music was a job that took a year and a half of patient effort. Eventually, however, they learned...
...Baltimore, Ambrose J. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for U. S. Representative from Maryland, was making a political speech in the Thomas Jefferson Club's hall, which has a seating capacity of 200. One hundred and ninety-nine seats were filled. Suddenly a heavy electric light globe plopped down from the ceiling, hit the one vacant seat...