Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most exciting kind of concert is one which presents an opportunity to come in contact not only with the artistry, but also the personality of a great musician. One of the greatest of our time, Nadia Boulanger, last night accomplished the difficult feat of communicating with every person in the theatre, musicians and listeners alike; and, as if incidentally, produced some inspired moments of music...
...participants in last night's concert were a select number of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra. Most of the members of these groups have a technical competence on the professional level, and musical capacities far above many professionals, enabling them to respond fully to Mlle. Boulanger's wishes. The orchestra was unusually rich and warm in Lili Boulanger's Vieille Priere Bouddhique, and the chorus sang with beautiful tone as always...
...Spring Weekend will be held this year on May 9 and 10. A Paine Hall band concert on Friday, crew races and a baseball game on Saturday, and the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate will be features of the annual event. In addition, all Houses will have dances on both nights...
...only indications that this was a special evening were the novelty of a hierarchical list of patrons which appeared along with some excellent notes by Assistant Professor Allen D. Sapp in the program; and a dance (music by Marshard) which followed the concert. As for the concert itself--it was just another concert, and not the best of the year, for that matter...
...Friday night's concert, the major work was Schubert's 7th Symphony, with a Bartok Dance Suite and a Handel Concerto for strings and double wind orchestra filling out the program. In the Bartok, conductor Attilio Poto's strong technique was invaluable to the orchestra as he guided the players through the rhythmic complexities of the work...