Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket and inspired $1.2 million in contributions to the impoverished performance center, included compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Tchaikovsky-the latter having conducted at Carnegie Hall's opening night in 1891. "May the Lord have mercy and forgive...
...nearly. This is also a brand-new day, and a whole new generation. For a great many members of this crowd-perhaps most -this wonderful, wistful ballad recalls a time they never knew. Beatles are legend. McCartney, 33, is here, right now, in barnstorming triumph, making his first concert tour of the States since he and his three noted mates sang their last song together at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in the late summer of 1966. McCartney still draws many of the Beatles faithful, to be sure. He has also found a whole new audience, his audience. They...
...concert is a study in controlled flash, spectacular but not gaudy. Even the trappings of the typical rock super-production-smoke bombs, laser beams, meticulous lighting and shifting backdrops-are used sparingly, for maximum effect. McCartney, wide-eyed, boyish, bounces along eagerly on the warm good will of the crowd. He swings into his syncopated little ditty Silly Love Songs, a current hit single (number two on the charts) taken from his latest hit album, Wings at the Speed of Sound, out two months and already gone way past gold (a million dollars' worth of album sales) into platinum...
...sort of refined disco tune, made for dancing and casual listening. At every concert Silly Love Songs gets the same amuck reception as Yesterday or any of the other five Beatles tunes McCartney performs during the course of the evening. Sometimes even bigger. Like much of McCartney's recent work, the song slips neatly, without fuss, into the mainstream...
James Cotton Blues Band. Sanders Theater, here. May 28, 8 p.m. They're even trying to bring concerts here to make you go so you don't study for your exams. Don't let this one fool you. After the concert is over, you'll wish it had been a Hum 103 lecture...