Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is for the wastebasket. A young black couple is taken on a tour down memory lane by three canny professionals (Avon Long, Josephine Premice and Joseph Attles) who are old but ageless. But there is no frost on their bones. This show comes from the tor rid zone...
During vacation the Classics will tour Puerto Rico and play four games with the national team, which placed second in the Pan American Games. What next? The Celtics...
Such enthusiasm was an almost nightly occurrence as America's most mobile orchestra last week completed a ten-day, 1,200-mile tour crisscrossing the blizzard-swept Continental Divide to make music in Idaho and Montana. They log 15,000 miles annually, playing country churches, school gyms and movie theaters in the Rocky Mountain states. In April they will head east for a three-week tour of nine Midwestern states...
Home-Grown Product. The orchestra's popularity on tour is more than matched at home in Salt Lake City, where its twice-monthly concerts at the 5,200-capacity Mormon Tabernacle are always sold out. In December voters proved their affection by passing an $8.7 million bond issue that will build a home for the orchestra. For the past 30 years, the Mormons have allowed the orchestra free use of the Tabernacle, the famed meetinghouse built in the 1860s under the eye of Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait...
...disputes between Martinon's critics and supporters had plunged the orchestra into a state of near anarchy; after a long illness; in Paris. Martinon, who had trained as a violinist at the National Music Conservatory in the late 1920s, began conducting on short notice. In 1945, while on tour as a violinist, he was asked to take over-largely because the orchestra was performing one of his early compositions-when the conductor fell ill. His successful debut led to invitations from other orchestras and a career in conducting...