Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reports reached Cambridge late last night that the band was planning to give Princeton undergraduates a surprise concert at 4 a.m. this morning. The band expected to play during a brief stop-over in its trip to the University of Pennsylvania for today's football game...
...raised his arms, and the 85-member Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra began the introduction to Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. For Michael Senturia '58, summa graduate in music and former conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra, long weeks of practice have gone into preparation for the HRO's Friday evening concert, his debut before the critical Cambridge audience as the new conductor of the Orchestra...
...concerts presented by the HRO this year also will differ from the patterns of previous years. "We hope to present short programs of music of more than common interest and less than common knowledge," Senturia states. For example, in Friday's concert, the Orchestra will present Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments," "a particularly uncompromising piece," Senturia's own arrangement for strings of Bach's six-part Ricercar, from "The Musical Offering," plus the Beethoven concerto...
...Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
...meantime, De Groot is filling out his concert season with old standbys, e.g., the Brahms version of Bach's Violin Chaconne, which he played last week to critical huzzahs on the Dutch radio. He is also rearranging pieces by Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. And if the day should ever come when he exhausts both the old and the new repertories, he sees an almost endless future in recording. Under the name "Guy Sherwood," for instance, he appears in a radio series on which he plays numbers such as Kitten on the Keys, for which he has deftly recorded first...