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concertize, v.|ˈkɒnsətaɪz| intr. To sing or play in concert, make a concert. (colloq.)
1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 695/1 Loads of pigs and geese..‘concertizing’ horribly. 1885in Ware Passing Eng. (1909) 89/1 M. Ovide Musin, the great Belgian violinist, has returned to this city to concertize under Mr. L. M. Rubens' management. 1888Pall Mall G. 21 Feb. 4/2, ‘I cannot concertize any more. I am tired.’ So says little Hofmann. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz Amer. (1958) x. 111 The Rhapsody in Blue..represented the most serious attempt to concertize jazz. So concertized ppl. a.; concertizing vbl. n.
1928Observer 22 July 21/1 Their singing of negro spirituals and ‘work songs’, and those who have only heard these songs in ‘concertised’ versions will be astonished [etc.].
1889Pall Mall G. 5 Nov. 2/1 Rubinstein..after some years of concertizing. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xvi. 288 The success was not such that he could give up teaching, concertizing, and composing instrumental pieces and comic songs. |