concertizev.

1840 Theatr. Jrnl. Mar. 130/1 Which will take us into May, which month we shall very probably end by concertizing somewhere.

1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 695/1 Loads of pigs and geese..‘concertizing’ horribly.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Feb. 4/2 ‘I cannot concertize any more. I am tired.’ So says little Hofmann.

1928 Musical Times 69 651/2 London has at least one orchestra rehearsing assiduously and concertising regularly under one conductor.

1966 G. Gould Let. 5 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 89 My reluctance to concertize abroad.

1998 Strad Sept. 969/2 I bought a Joseph Curtin violin in 1995 and concertized on it for two years.

1859 N.Y. Musical Rev. & Gaz. 8 Jan. 4/1 A trained choir may so operatize, and dramatize, and concertize the closing hymn..as to divert the attention wholly from the hymn.

1891 Wisconsin State Reg. 30 May Christianity must be made over, creeds be rewritten, priests unfrocked, sacraments abolished, music concertized.

1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. x. 111 The Rhapsody in Blue..represented the most serious attempt to concertize jazz.

2000 K. Welsh-Asante Zimbabwe Dance ii. 28 Newly liberated African nations began to concertize the dance.

1915 Piano Trade Mag. Feb. 85/2 Five or six concertized pianos known to musicians generally and handled in the large cities as ‘leaders’.

1928 Observer 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.].

2008 J. Karp in B. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett & J. Karp Art being Jewish in Mod. Times iii. 72 Louis Gruenberg, throughout the 1920s the most avid experimenter in concertized jazz.

1850 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 4 Sept. 1/7 God bless you, my dear fellow, but don't, amid the exciting scenes in concertizing, ever forget Captain ——.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Nov. 2/1 Rubinstein..after some years of concertizing.

1997 N.Y. Times 6 July h28/1 His [sc. a busker's] concertizing is as close as many people are likely to come to Cole's vocal artistry.