Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor-Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, second cousin of Wilhelm, thwarted in his eager attempts to perform for charity (TIME, March 12), turned professional last week. On the scheme of following the Romans while in Rome, he announced that he would conduct now only for a fee and one comparable to that received by Arturo Toscanini (i. e., approximately $2,500 a concert). His services are to be on the market in Manhattan for eight days at which time he will start on a sightseeing tour-to Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, perhaps Canada...
...University Instrumental Clubs will perform in New Bedford tonight under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New Bedford. Fifty men will take part in the annual concert to be given in the New Bedford Hotel...
...first time in the U. S., according to the prosecuting attorneys, that a physician had been given a death sentence as penalty for having performed an abortion, although many a one has been fined or imprisoned. The crime is fairly common, say sociologists, in the U. S. and is increasing. Although abortions are exceedingly dangerous to the health & life of a woman, they are relatively simple operations to perform. Death is usually an untoward accident...
...refused to perform another operation that might have saved her life because, "She had no money...
Although "King David" is not pronounced such a difficult work to perform as Stravinsky's "Oedipue Rex", it is nevertheless, another production worthy of the Glee Club's talent according to many critics...