Word: concertedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock, when the bank closed, the concert ended. At 4 o'clock, when the bank reopened, the music roared up again. Frantic Jose Santamaria went upstairs in person. "My dear friend," said Don Francisco grandly, "do come in and enjoy my little concert. These are the finest musicians in town. I discovered them. Won't you stay a while and have a drink with me?" Don Jose sputtered: "Stop this infernal racket or I shall call the police." "An excellent idea!" crowed the landlord. "Those poor chaps must get very bored in that dreary town hall...
...musicians, during the day teachers, carpenters, painters and salesmen, went on playing for their own pleasure at the Ionic Temple. Before long, so many people dropped in to listen that the players decided to start giving concerts. They gave them Scandinavian style. During intermissions the musicians would step down from the stage, mingle with the guests. After the concert, there would be coffee, cakes, sometimes a dance. Over the years the orchestra grew in size from 36 to 75; when they got a regular conductor, Vienna-born Eduard Werner, they began to grow in proficiency. In recent years their weekly...
...Romantic Symphony No. 2, then wound things up with resounding performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they had something special to talk about. With the proceeds from their concert, 70 of them would climb aboard a Stratocruiser in two weeks, take off, kit & caboodle, for a two-month tour of Scandinavia...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Concert version of Verdi's Falstaff (Part 1). Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...auditorium of the Clarksville, Ark. high school, an audience of 1,600 applauded enthusiastically as Vienna-born Conductor Josef Blatt stepped onstage to conduct a concert of the Arkansas State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Blatt faced the audience, beet-red with embarrassment: "This is one of those things that happens once in a million times. The orchestra is here. I am here. But we left every scrap of our music in Little Rock . . . there will be no concert." Then he promised to bring the orchestra back two days later-with the music...