Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normally busy schedule: a National Security Council meeting, lunch at his desk with Presidential Science Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing on progress of the Air Force's nuclear powered airplane, a dinner party at the Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list of possible successors: Donald Quarles, eminently suited...
...Bach Society and its gifted conductor, John Harbison, presented an enjoyable program for its final offering of the season. Including a beautiful Bach cantata and a piano concerto by Mozart, the concert was well received by a large audience in Piano Hall Sunday evening...
...more grandiose conception of the work resulted in the orchestra's drowning out Murray's playing. This imbalance and inaccuracy on the orchestra's part disappeared in the last movement when it joined the pianist in a vibrant performance of the finale--a fitting close to an excellent concert...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra Royal Society of Ushers recently announced its choices for the worst performances of the BSO's 78th season, which ended last week. The BSORSU is composed of the 16 Harvard undergraduates who usher the Friday-Saturday concert series...
...whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub seemed as big as a concert stage...