Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumors spread through the capital, Michiko Shoda suddenly left Japan, on her first trip abroad, visited Europe and the U.S., where she heard Pianist Van Cliburn play his first concert in Carnegie Hall. There were letters along the way from the prince, and, troubled, Michiko wrote her parents: "I don't believe commoners should be united with the imperial family. I doubt if such a step would have good results." To the prince she wrote: "I hope you will let me be a close friend of yours for a long, long time...
Part of Segovia's power over his audience derives from his single-minded devotion to the instrument he restored to concert-hall favor. "The guitar is as difficult as a hysterical woman," he says. "But I am faithful to her. I am not polygamous." Segovia still practices five hours each day, and for a month each summer he teaches classical guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also gives more concerts than ever (120 scheduled this year). Segovia generally avoids flashier-sounding pieces. "If people have even a little understanding," he says, "it is better...
...while his concern for highly schematized structure seemed to be the necessary concomitant to an idiom so unlike Western music. The post-Webern school, as its name implies, has carried these methods a good deal further. There was ample evidence of the wide spectrum of this music at a concert held in Paine Hall on Mar. 5, devoted largely to the post-Webern representation at Harvard, which raised some hard questions about the aims and future of advanced music...
...concert closed with Webern, as many serialist concerts do; in this case the Three Small Pieces, Opus 11, superbly performed by Judith Davidoff and Rzewski. As usual, Webern made his successors seem rather tentative and shapeless (the exception was Mr. Rzewski's vastly self-assured piece), but he did not detract from their clear achievements, largely in the matters of color and dynamic subtlety. Whether or not the structural question has been answered is problematical. Wolff and others say that sense of direction should not necessarily be looked for in this music, that many works ought to be regarded...
...Composers Concert...