Word: touring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combined string sections and horns will join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...
...wife, Natalya Konstantinovna was a woman of means. Together they financed an orchestra for Koussevitzky to practice on, and gave a series of concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Koussevitzky Concerts began to catch on with the Russian public. The Koussevitzkys chartered a ferryboat, made a tour of the Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists as the late Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Prokofieff...
...prizes all over Europe since then, its U. S. showing was delayed by price difficulties. Last week, with English titles by John Erskine, it finally opened at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Playhouse, got reviews enthusiastic enough to justify nationwide showing in small theatres. Good shot (a characteristic Guitry tour de force) : the narrator exhibiting the series of disguises by which he was accustomed to fool hotel detectives...
Promptly Bride Pons Benedict Kostel-anelz flew lo South America. She made a six-week concert tour, he surveyed South American radio. Last week, Andre Kostel-anelz gave CBS his report on the honeymoon survey, incidentally upsetting popular ideas of the nature of Latin American radio listening...
Just returned from a trip to Europe that ended with a tour of threatened Czechoslovakia, Richmond Holder '40 and John S. Stillman '40 gave a graphic picture of conditions in the country that Hitler is threatening in an interview yesterday...