Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When last Schneider's Silver Concert Band performed in the Yard, it was Commencement Week and a misty nostagia dampened the valetudinarian playing that marks Herr Schneider's style...
...grievances exist in most parochial schools. Regarding spending $26.40 for the school play, Mrs. Cronin got off easy. When I was in public high school, my next-door neighbors spent a minimum of $30 a year on costumes alone so that their daughter could appear in our annual band concert...
...Composer Kurt Weill, who celebrated the mood of his German generation in such gorgeously tawdry musical plays as The Threepenny Opera and Mahagonny. Last week, in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Singer Lenya, fiftyish, stepped before a microphone again and rekindled the feeling of those darkly cynical days. The concert was a tribute both to Composer Weill's remarkable durability and to Lotte Lenya's own great gifts as a singing actress...
Dreaminess & Hate. The program included selections from Weill's later works written for the Broadway stage-Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus. But what the crowd had turned out to hear was a concert version of the Marc Blitzstein adaptation of Threepenny Opera, which last week marked its 1,200th performance at the off-Broadway Theater de Lys. Dressed in a royal blue frock, her carroty blonde hair drawn loosely back with combs, Lenya appeared in the role she created in Berlin in 1928 and made famous-that of Jenny, the bitter, dream-haunted London prostitute...
...occasion for this idyl was the second concert in a series called Music at the Vineyards, held at the century-old Paul Masson Vineyards in the Santa Clara Valley, 40 miles southeast of San Francisco. The inspiration for the series came from four remarkable brothers-Paul, Herbert, Alfred and Norman Fromm. All of the Fromms except Herbert (who is a fulltime organist and composer) make their living in the wine trade, and regularly funnel handsome sums into the support of music. When Norman decided to give California some really fine summer music ("the kind the concert manager...