Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently I would have ended everything I could say about Blues with B. B. King's greatness. In the last couple of months, however, I have finally had the oportunity to see Jimi Hendrix in a live concert. Prior to that my impresison of Hendrix was that he put out some really beautiful hard Bluesy Rock, but unfortunately played too much acid garbage complemented by some rather frothy third-rate pseudo Dylanesque lyrics. And live, well, you've heard the stories. At the Monterey Pop Festival he turned his guitar into an all purpose sex organ alternately screwing...
...Harvard University Choir will give a memorial concert for Martin Luther King on March 23, and will contribute the proceeds of the concert to the Institute for Afro-American studies proposed in the Rosovsky Report...
...choir--hoping to raise $3000---will perform Bach's Passion According to St. John in Memorial Church, John Ferris, University organist, said yesterday. Memorial Church will sponsor the concert so that all profits may go to the Institute...
Ferris said that the memorial concert had originally been planned by a committee in Boston headed by Mrs. James Olson. Mrs. Olson suggested to Ferris that the University Choir perform in conjunction with community groups in Symphony Hall. A number of prominent singers, including George Shirley of the Metropolitan Opera company, volunteered to participate in this concert. However, not enough money was raised for it, and the plans fell through...
...concert now being planned by the University Choir will only involve Harvard. It will be the one concert given by the choir this spring