Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered to be every bit as original and daring as his composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called Angels. Most impressive was the granite-hewn intensity of his orchestral miniatures, Men and Mountains, Portals and Organum. His most ambitious work, the tone poem...
They gave up touring at a time when they were being offered a million dollars a concert, when they were near to the height of their popularity. They were already rich, sure, but how many other performers turned their backs on that much money, adulation, and love...turned their backs on it because it wasn't, well, fun anymore? Fun! Don't they realize man has to sweat to earn his bread? Don't they realize that show business is a business, and that you have to get while the getting's good? Don't they know that life...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ AT CARNEGIE HALL (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The first television concert by the renowned piano virtuoso includes works by Chopin, Schumann, Scarlatti and Scriabin...
...Tiny Tim, aquiver with indignation. Seems that in 1952, while performing under the name Derry Dover, he made an album for Bouquet Records. Now Bouquet has released the album, with the famous Tiny Tim visage on the cover, using the title With Love and Kisses from Tiny Tim-Concert in Fairyland. In New York Supreme Court, Tiny's lawyers argued that his vocalizing has changed as much as his name and demanded that Bouquet stop trying to cash in on his current fame. The judge agreed and slapped a restraining order on Bouquet Records...
Died. Juan José Castro, 73, Argentina's foremost conductor-composer, who exiled himself shortly after Dictator Juan Perón came to power in 1946, toured the world's concert halls for nine years before returning home; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buenos Aires. During his long exile, Castro led orchestras from Melbourne to Belgrade, brought his lean, thoroughly modern style to numerous Latin-flavored works, most notably the opera Proserpina and the Stranger, which premiered to a tumultuous ovation at Milan's La Scala...