Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good and all the banjo and mandolin, by concentrating on the orchestra and singing groups, for which there is talent galore, and by demanding reasonable proficiency and attendance at rehearsals, the Clubs would not have to stretch to put on a concert this spring as well as a tour of the East next Christmastide, especially since the mist of depression no longer hangs heavy over many interested graduates and sponsors...
WALTER Millis made a tour of the principle countries of Europe this summer, and when he returned he must have spent several late summer evenings musing over the peoples he saw and the conversations he heard. The Millis who writes this human essay of European psychology and European faith is no longer that same Millis who penned the starkly economic interpretation of the World War--"The Road to War". In "Viewed Without Alarm" Mr. Millis seats himself comfortably in his soft, leathern easy-chair, and very soon sets us at ease over the supposedly tense European situation today...
Frederika (words & music by Edward Eliscu & Franz Lehar; Shuberts, producers). "Mr. J. J. Shubert, during his recent tour abroad, had observed the tradition of paying homage to the Waltz King by visiting Lehar at his home in Vienna. He had witnessed performances of five of his recent works in as many different capitals. The rare musical gift Frederika is merely the forerunner of a cycle." So reads a program note in this collaboration between Composer Lehar and the Producers Shubert, which was received by Manhattan first-nighters with self-control bordering on ennui...
...last more than an hour, arrangements so far were undetailed. It was not announced how much Toscanini would be paid, how many concerts he would conduct, or even where he would conduct them. Musical wiseacres were convinced, however, that the Toscanini-NBC broadcasts would be given on a tour which will encourage sales of his records made by RCA Victor, NBC's corporate cousin, which arranged a similar tour for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, April 27), will send Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra on another this spring...
Enesco was 12 when he continued his studies in composition and harmony at the Paris Conservatory. He had teachers like Massenet and Faure. At 17 he took a brilliant first prize in violin and began to tour...