Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pianist envisions it. As told by the pianist Abraham Chasins. Horowitz had spent the afternoon walking in the famous zoo in Hamburg, Germany, and returned back to his hotel in early evening when it began to snow. Near the entrance to his hotel he caught sight of the local concert manager who upon seeing Horowitz-started gesturing excitedly and informed the pianist that a woman pianist who was to play a concerto that night had fainted during a rehearsal and would be unable to play. He asked Horowitz to substitute...
...huge concert was about to begin in an hour. After a quick shave and a glass of milk, Horowitz dashed off for the concert hall, and entered just as the conductor. Eugen Pabst, was finishing the symphony that was to precede the concerto. Parts to the Tschaikovsky B flat piano concerto had been rushed from the library and placed on the musician's stands...
Radical highs and lows interspersed with bizarre twists of fate have characterized Horowitz's life, and have undoubtedly been responsible, at least in part, for his quirkiness and instability. Twice at the heights of popularity he has left the concert stage for more than ten years, with rumored nervous breakdowns. He has said that he is frightened by people en masse, and by concert audiences...
With some excellent jazz music schools in the area, every once in a while you can expect the faculties of the school to get together and throw a tremendous concert. That's what the people at Berklee School of Music decided to do tonight. At 8 p.m. in Berklee's Performance Center, the Berklee School will present Berklee's all-star music faculty playing 200 years of jazz. Their big band ensemble will take on Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others. To get to the performance center hop a Dudley bus to Auditorium. Tickets...
...band strikes again next week at the New England Conservatory when Jaki Byard leads the school's Afro-American Musical Department in concert. That concert, held October 19 at 8:30 p.m., is free. Just take the Green Line to Symphony...