Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Budapest probably went on longer than any quartet in musical history, maintaining a continuity of style despite changes in personnel. It was a first-rate group when, in 1917, four string players from the Budapest Opera gave their first concert in Kolozsvar, Rumania. But it was the present members, all Russian-born, joining forces and talents in the late 1920s and early '30s, who made the Budapest the century's most popular string quartet-and the best...
...took over the Basic Piano program. For the last three years she has taught first-year harmony in Music 51. In her office, sitting among dulcimers, stringless lutes, a harpsichord, and a chamber organ, she is revealed also as the Curator of Ancient Instruments. But it is the concert career preceding her work at Harvard that best explains her effluent style of teaching. She threatens, exhorts, raises her eyes in anguish, then emerges with a reassuring smile...
...evanescence of concert reputations surprises her even now. It is far more enjoyable, she says, to give a concert in Boston, than in New York. Here she is an "accepted commodity"--in New York you have to break in again each time you play. At a concert recently, Miss Vosgerchain was playing as accompanist to a friend. A tall black woman, the daughter of Roland Hayes, came to her afterwards. "I've never heard of you," she said, "but I simply must have you as my pianist...
...Still, concert success has not left her visibly selfsatisfied, nor impatient with an "academic" music department. "I tasted all that while I was still in my teens," she says. "For artists going in the other direction, from study to performance, things like that can be meaningful. But finally I gave part of it up for serious study...
...ambition; now nearly all of its programs are movies. Worse, they are seen only in black and white, and are not strictly first-run (last week's offerings included Frank Sinatra in The Detective). In earlier days, WHCT was more venturesome. It carried a 1963 Joan Baez concert live ($1.50) and the 1964 Clay-Liston fight ($3). That drew 63% of the clientele. There have been other signs of pay-TV appeal. Patients at a Hartford old folks' hospital who got their service free were so enthusiastic that they made a bed-to-bed collection and sent...