Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Pris on. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop al bums of the year. Country Singer Cash, a top concert attraction at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as well as Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look...
...Concert Hall as a Museum...
...sort of curator, and he hangs up these equivalents of masterpieces by Rembrandt, only they're by Beethoven. And he tries to light them as well as possible and put them next to the right other picture, and that's called programming. The whole idea of the concert hall grew up with the idea of the symphony. It began in the 18th century and finished with the beginning of the 20th century: from Mozart to Mahler, roughly. The symphonic form is dead, finished. But why despair about it? Just accept it. That tremendous repertory of masterpieces should...
...once more. This time, however, they were orderly and placid, and the sounds were the melting strains of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. The music was provided by the 90-piece New Jersey Symphony, led by young (35) Negro Conductor Henry Lewis, performing in a huge portable concert shell that can be folded and packed up into a single oversized trailer...
...Newark program, one of three free ghetto performances by the orchestra in memory of Martin Luther King, is part of a nationwide trend in summer concerts. More and more, sponsors and performers are taking to the streets in order to carry music right to the doorsteps of the nation's poor and underprivileged. The result is that many slum dwellers who otherwise would not bother or could not afford to go to a concert in a large park or stadium can now hear good music simply by leaning out their windows or pausing on a street corner...