Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair, have never stood high on the State Department's list of good-will ambassadors. That, as they make clear, is not what they are hired for. Last week Ava and Frankie were in Australia, she on location for her movie On the Beach, he for a concert engagement. Yet even their well-known aversion to crowds and the press could not keep the Aussies at a distance. The result was something special, even by Hollywood standards...
Attilio Poto ended his five-year career with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last night. The concert's final piece was Beethoven's seventh symphony, performed in a manner which revealed a good many now-familiar characteristics of Mr. Poto and his orchestra; the out-of-tune winds, the unclear articulation in the strings, the surprising power in forte passages; the clear, business-like beat of the conductor. Given these conditions, the last movement, with its big tuttis and its motor energy, came off best; delicate, involved sections fared less well. It was the performance of a good amateur orchestra which...
...concert opened with the Faithful Shepherd Suite of Handel-Beecham, and this noble music was generally well played. The audience was highly enthusiastic, and, at the close of the concert, joined with the orchestra in giving Mr. Poto a standing ovation...
Henry R. Shepley, in conjunction with Belluschi, helped plan New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which contains the new Metropolitan Opera House and the New York Philharmonic concert hall...
...next concert will be a special children's concert in Sanders this Saturday afternoon, an indication that the Orchestra is already taking on various community responsibilities. Cambridge can look forward with satisfaction to the many benefits and possibilities offered by a civic orchestra, and be grateful for such an excellent start under Mr. Manusevitch...