Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stooped from her height (6 ft. 1 in.), endeavored to hear their greetings through the mother-of-pearl earphone she wore clasped to her head. But the guests had plenty to hear because, with her customary generosity, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge* had provided five rich programs of her own chosen chamber music...
...programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three days, of the 23 works played, 13 were dedicated to her, five were first performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they knew that the tablet was placed where it belonged: it was in Pittsfield. 16 years ago, that Mrs. Coolidge began to concentrate on musical philanthropies...
...them Mrs. Coolidge bought a little Cape Cod church, dismantled it and moved it to South Mountain. She commissioned scores from composers. They would dedicate them to her, give her the manuscripts. In six years her collection and her concerts had such prestige that she decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music by Ravel, Schönberg, Casella, Respighi, Stravinsky, Bloch. Mrs. Coolidge...
...third series of chamber music concerts by the Chardon String Quartet will be given this year in Brattle Hall...
...first concert, on Thursday evening, October 25, is dedicated to the memory of H. t. Parker, late dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript. The program consist of compositions which Mr. Parker had suggested for a chamber music concert: Mozart's Oboe Quintet, k. 370; John Alden Carpenter's String Quartet, and Brahm's Quartet in C Minor...