Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowning horror occurred at a Cobo Hall rock concert in downtown Detroit in mid-August. Some 125 black youths, apparently acting in unison, beat and robbed scores of patrons and gang-raped one woman. For a full hour, undermanned police outside the hall refused to intervene-on the incredible grounds that Cobo Hall had promised to provide its own security. When they finally did bestir themselves, they arrested 47 hoodlums; all have been released...
Ruth Darmstadter, a former Nader staffer writing in the Washingtonian, charges that "the popular image of a band of 60 to 70 dedicated idealists working in happy concert with Nader is, quite simply, a fiction. When you couple Nader's incompetence as an administrator with the importance of employees remaining in his favor, you have the formula for a poisoned atmosphere." One dramatic expression of that atmosphere was the mysterious, nighttime removal of a personal diary from the office of Ted Jacobs, a high-level Nader associate, who says he was then fired by Nader for "misconduct...
Died. Gina Bachauer, 63, piano virtuoso whose powerful romanticism won her international acclaim; of a heart attack; shortly before a performance in her native Athens. A student of Sergei Rachmaninoff's, Bachauer found her budding career postponed by World War II. She abandoned concert halls for military outposts, giving more than 600 recitals of classics and boogie-woogie for Allied troops in the Middle East. A commanding woman in appearance as well as technique, Bachauer made her U.S. debut in 1950, drawing only 35 listeners. Critics, however, were quick to praise her spirited interpretations of a wide variety...
This Sunday at Copley Square you can hear the Wayne Naus-Greg Hopkins Big Band for free. The concert begins...
That's about it except for one item--if you're into dancing, a fine opportunity for it presents itself this Thursday when none other than Archie Bell & the Drells headline a dance concert at the Boston Arena with Trammps and Brass Construction, August...