Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KEITH JARRETT: THE KÖLN CONCERT...
...looks like I'm gettin' ready to fight someone," Muhammad Ali mused as he stared at the 20,000 people packed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The occasion was a battle of sorts: a benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince...
...audience at this concert was predominantly black, but the choir's call for unity transcended color differences, and the audience responded as a unified whole. Larry Fields, president of the Kuumba singers, while making a clever solicitation for financial aid, also stated the group's intention "to let students relate to something other than books!"--an attractive invitation in an era of overbooking. "One More Day" expressed the joy that is possible in each day and ignited a desire, which the entire performance fueled, for the ability to enjoy a day just for its playfulness...
...guilty, insists Author Samuel Florman. All the world's engineers cannot possibly act in concert for good or ill; nor, for that matter, is technology a sinister disembodied force. "The true source of our problems," Florman finds, "is nothing other than the irrepressible human will"; it is the "dyspeptic philosophers" of anti-technology who would deny human beings the right to desire material comforts. Florman then offers an "existential" philosophy for his profession. Quoting widely from such sources as Homer, the Old Testament, Henry Adams and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he lists joys available to his colleagues: the thrill derived...
Music 180 Concert featuring a Mozart wind serenade, Stravinsky songs, and the Ravel piano trio. Paine Hall...