Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scoring the Concert...
...Just because you did not like Foss's cello Concert [March 17] is no reason for name-calling and reasonless ridicule. I am not one of those who feel that "if it's new, it must be good," but I have a strong suspicion that the composer of Time Cycle and Echoi has not suddenly stopped writing masterpieces and started writing trash. Moreover, your review is strongly reminiscent of the derisive criticism that has greeted every major composer. One is reminded of Mozart's clarinet concerto ("Unfit for ladies' ears") and Beethoven's seventh symphony...
...leaders of the group opposing Moral Re-armament, we feel that our purposes and activities were severely misrepresented in the CRIMSON. Demonstrations are difficult to control, and we wish to go on record as disassociating ourselves from those who treated the concert as a joke. The fact that we distributed a serious, responsible leaflet criticizing MRA was ignored, and we are not certain that the CRIMSON read it. One of us was instrumental in getting the YD's and YR's to present a disclaimer. Regrettably, mention of this was also omitted...
Duke Ellington and his orchestra will perform in "Sacred Concert" at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street. Proceeds will go to the Congregational and Episcopal Chaplaincies of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...responsible for the entire concert was music-major Jan Johnson, '68. Conductor, page-turner and general impresario, Johnson showed a keen appreciation of Ives and did an admirable job of bringing his music to life. A "hats off, gentlemen" from Eusebius was certainly in order...