Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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English teenagers mobbed him, trying to touch him, to see his face, to hear his voice. He played before packed concert halls, mesmerizing huge audiences with the simple, lyrical beauty of his horn, receiving wildly enthusiastic ovations at the end of each number. What was the magic of this frail little black man from the back streets of New Orleans? What was there in his music that spoke its message to the hearts of these Englishmen, Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Japanese as it had spoken to his own people for almost 50 years...
...Harvard Glee Club will present the last Yard Concert of the season today at 7 p.m. on the steps of Widener Library. Elliot Forbes '40 will conduct...
HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Dan Rowan and Dick Martin slip over to ABC for "a comedy concert...
Almost every piece since 1920, much less 1945, is considered perverse despoliation; to many it is satanic chaos, reprehensible and calumnious. Also ugly. It is hardly surprising that the usual concert season is an essay in archaeology. The result is that the new works of 1925 are despised, while the masterpieces of 1725 and 1825 are subjected to one last definitive violation. The audience is so sated with enervating performance of the acceptable masterworks that the Beethoven Fifth might as well be so much chloroform...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will hold a concert t 7 p.m. tonight on the steps of Widener, followed by a sight-reading of Brahms' Requiem in Sever 11 conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth '24. All singers invited...