Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The fourth of this season's concerts is a "Quiz-Concert," in which Conductor Leonard Bernstein asks the audience (and the viewer who is invited to participate at home): "How Musical...
...Harvard Glee Club will give a concert at 7 p.m. tonight on the steps of Widener Library...
...concert's primary sources of drawing power, pace Mozart, were the two previously unfinished "torsos" which Levin had brought to completion as the bulk of his thesis project. It was a product, the program stated, "of some 18 months' work in the U.S. and Europe." The first of these torsos, announced as Concerto Movement for Piano, Violin and Orchestra, K. 315f, was the more substantial of the two and received by far the better performance. To Levin's great credit, there was no noticeable break between the exposition as completed by Mozart and his own continuation based on his knowledge...
...case of any concert, there are always nits to pick. Mrs. Harbison and even Levin himself exhibited a tendency to rush and blur the details in more rapid passages. In addition, they both had the annoying habit of building to a climax but somehow giving up or losing concentration before the crucial moment. The result was a large number of fractured phrases and a general sense of frustration. Mrs. Harbison's intonation, like that of the quintet, was frequently poor...
Complaint, however, is bootless and beside the point. To say that the concert was enjoyable would be an understatement--it was stupendous. After all, with Levin's gifts as a pianist and composer and with Mozart as collaborator, how could anyone miss...