Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's "Electric Christmas" concert in Carnegie Hall, an experimental, 80-minute program that had no breaks-except with tradition. The participants: the twelve-member New York Pro Musica ensemble, whose long-time specialty has been little-known medieval and Renaissance music; the five-man Circus Maximus, a Manhattan-based rock group; a lighting crew from the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discothèque; and Electronic Composer Morton Subotnick, a professor at New York University...
There were, of course, other ways to measure the importance of Graffman's concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more...
This eclectic American approach was partly conditioned by circumstances. "When I was growing up," Graffman says, "we could hear almost all the great Europeans in concert regularly, because the war had forced them to mi grate to the United States. Then, we had recordings. In other words, the pianistic world was at our fingertips." Even today, Graffman often refers to recordings by other pianists in developing his own musical outlook. "When I first work on a piece, I deliberately avoid hearing other performances. Then, when it is respectably well along, I listen to all recordings, because every great artist will...
Down to Eight. Graffman's first major achievement came in 1949, when he won the Leventritt Award. It was an important step up, but it did not bring instant success. The next few years were spent doing the town-to-town Community Concert circuit. In 1964, he refused to play before a segregated audience in Jackson, Miss., and that temporarily knocked the props from under his career: the following season he was able to pull down a mere eight bookings. This season, Graffman's schedule calls for 100 appearances. "That's too many by 25," he says...
McCarthy said in a speech read during the concert, "We in the United States must share the responsibility for what has happened in Greece. President Eisenhower in January, 1961, warned against what the military-industrial complex could do... It is not a danger at home yet, but already it is manifested in our foreign policy, like toward Greece...