Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to master the exacting technique of playing together at the same keyboard, the result is often music-making of high order. Last week Manhattan audiences had a chance to hear the best four-hand team since the late, famed Josef Lhevinne played with his wife Rosina. Occasion: a concert at Carnegie Hall by young Viennese Pianists Joerg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...
...winning composition will be played by the orchestra on the same program with the prize concerto at the final concert of the year in Sanders Theater. Judge for the contest will be Attilio Poto, conductor...
Among the many delights of the Reading Period, certainly none is more welcome than the Sunday serenade from the Lowell Bell Tower. Although these concerts provide, week in and week out, the greatest source of pleasure to the music-loving public in Cambridge, they seem particularly enjoyable at this otherwise bleak season of the year. One always fears that the pressures of studying may dampen the bell-ringers' wonted enthusiasm, and their devoted following was relieved by yesterday's unusually outstanding concert...
Looking back on yesterday's concert, only one slight complaint can possibly arise, and that has to do with the spacing of the numbers. The listener is caught, during the intervals, in a veritable frenzy of despair that the previous number was the last, and listeners have been known to stay glued to their windows for as long as half an hour in hopes of one last piece. This element of suspense is all that interferes with an otherwise totally exhilarating musical experience...
After last week's Carnegie Hall concert (also on the program: Pianist Gina Bachauer), weary Conductor Barbirolli faced the audience. Said he: "My dear friends, you can imagine that it is not without great emotion that I return . . . You have made me a very happy man. God bless you." Whereupon Sir John stepped down and threw his arms around the concertmaster...