Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five hours before the concert, a platoon of coolies moved into the open-air concert area and enveloped it in a cloud of insecticide to kill off the mosquitoes. An hour later, two coolies armed with spools of adhesive tape started affixing location tags to the rows of folding seats. At C-hour-minus-30 minutes, the national flags of Viet Nam and the U.S. were in place. As the darkness gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced...
...think I'll ever go as far as I want to go.'' The remark falls somewhat strangely from his lips. A musical director at M-G-M when he was barely 19, Previn has since juggled the careers of arranger, composer, conductor, concert pianist and jazzman, and kept each in the air without missing a beat...
During the past two weeks, Previn was planning two new jazz albums and an album of chamber music; he was also rehearsing Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations for a concert with the Los Angeles Symphony, discussing the scores for three new pictures, writing an arrangement for Ella Fitzgerald of a song he has written (called Yes), and rehearsing (in New York City) for an appearance with Benny Goodman on TV's Swing into Spring. In Hollywood he barely had time to drop in at the Pantages Theater on his thirtieth birthday to collect a glittering memento of his most...
...films, composing, arranging, orchestrating and conducting quite a few entirely on his own, including It's Always Fair Weather and Bad Day at Black Rock. By "cheating every minute," he has managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland, Barber. Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok-but he has also recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart, with his good friend Composer Lukas Foss. His jazz manner is all his own: a fanciful, highly individualistic style, characterized by kaleidoscopic rhythmic shifts, trip-hammered treble...
Railway porters, French whores, ferocious Irish colonels, obsessed priests, poets, lovely girls and frustrated concert violinists loom up in the story and disappear. Each page of the book has its verbal delights, but it is doubtful if Cusack has made a true mosaic of his brilliant bits of colored stone...