Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint Band and Glee Club Concert at Carnegie Hall on March 15 will feature an address by President Pusey and the introduction of a new Harvard song...
...White House performance is still tentative. The band will travel down to Washington on May 3 for the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Alan S. Novins '59, assistant band manager, said there was a strong possibility of a concert on the White House lawn and a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Concert of Voices. The momentum of U.S. diplomacy carried even farther than Saud. Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, a tried and true U.S. friend himself, met with the President, conferred with Saud, observed to waiting reporters that the King is a "real friend of the U.S." Still another Middle Eastern voice, that of natty Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq, was raised in the fresh Washington harmony. Like Saud, with whom he met after seeing the President, Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with...
Polish-born pianist Artur Rubinstein, 68, down south in Birmingham for a concert, looked back on decades of U.S. tours, hailed the cultural progress of the nation's hinterland, parts of which were once dismissed by H. L. Mencken as "the Sahara of the bozarts." Rubinstein sees the U.S. as a sprawling oasis: "In the past 25 years this country has made more advances than some places in Europe have made in 250 years. Small towns throughout America are more receptive to fine music than old cities in France like Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...
...Goethe's Faust at La Scala in 1868 only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more challenging than Gounod's lovely but un-Faustian version, more dramatic than Berlioz' rambling opéra de concert, it suffers from a tendency to bombast. In this cut version the work gets a rather tame performance, but it still bears the mark of a fine musical-literary mind and is well worth the listening...