Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music Club outdid itself Friday night in presenting a two-hour concert devoted solely to the music of Ives. One is usually lucky enough to hear a program containing but one of his works, which then has to be appreciated in isolation. But here was a veritable smorgasborg of Ives, ranging from the Grieg-like First Quartet (performed by string orchestra) to the more modernistic songs and the enigmatic Unanswered Question for strings, solo trumpet, and concertino of woodwinds. The audience had the rare opportunity of experiencing Ives' music in all its ambivalence: intense and earnest yet caustic and derisive...
...girl who brought those glories to Mississippi was Metropolitan Opera Soprano Leontyne Price, 40, making her first home-state appearance since 1963. Negroes are not often greeted so warmly in Mississippi, but the integrated crowd in Jackson Coliseum met Leontyne with a standing ovation at the start of the concert, interrupted her repeatedly with applause in the middle of song cycles-until she gently asked them to wait till the cycles were over. After that, Leontyne traveled to Atlanta to sing to a packed house in the Municipal Auditorium with the Atlanta Symphony. Shouts of "Bravo!" and "More, more!" followed...
...Golden Glint. Like Miss Stein, Alice Toklas came from a Jewish background and moved in a wealthy orbit in San Francisco. She considered a career as a concert pianist. Then, at the age of 30, she first laid eyes on Gertrude Stein in Paris. "She was a golden-brown presence," Alice wrote later, "burned by the Tuscan sun and with a golden glint in her warm brown hair." Together they soon set up house on the Rue de Fleurus. While Gertrude labored over her hypnotic experiments with words-the most famous being "Rose is a rose is a rose"-Alice...
Like many contemporary composers, America's Lukas Foss, 44, has been experimenting lately with new sounds. At Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, Foss conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, with Soloist Mstislav Rostropovich, in the world premiere of his Concert (not, inexplicably, concerto) for Cello and Orchestra. There were no really new sounds in the piece-just old sounds, such as blatt, splatt and pflat...
...elite" in favor of reaching "the simple man who can understand by direct feeling without learning music." A steady but not prolific composer, he excelled more at vocal than orchestral music, and pieces like the suite from his bright, good-humored opera Háry János became concert-hall staples. His life's output was remarkable for its uniform excellence; his unabashedly melodic First Symphony, for example, written when he was 79, evokes the same atmosphere of Transylvanian winterscapes and shepherd's watch fires on the puszta as his earlier works...