Word: concert
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...Sanders Theatre. A concert by the Harvard Glee Club, President Bok. President Horner, and Dean Rosovsky. The Glee Club will sing "God Save Our President" by Gounod, various Renaissance motets, Loch Lomond or such like, and many football songs with vigorous four hands piano accompaniment. The Presidents and the Dean of the Faculty will provide non--musical commentary during the breaks. The Glee Club can be heard to better advantage during the fall, not the others. Free...
Today from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. you can perform on your flute, clarinet, oboe, english or french horn, bassoon, tenoroon or other wind-related instrument for representatives of the Harvard Marching, Concert and Jazz Bands. Chances are if you can simultaneously walk and produce tones in most of the standard pitches you will be accepted into one or more of these organizations. As you probably know, bands are like regular orchestras except they have masses of clarinets sitting in the violin section, bassoons for cellos, and so on. Percussionists also welcome. Also...
Clear Chords. The current Joplin vogue is now five years old. it began when a record company, Nonesuch, began issuing Joplin albums played by such "straight" pianists as Joshua Rifkin and William Bolcom. It gained distinction in 1972 when Vera Brodsky Lawrence, an ex-concert pianist, brought out a two-volume edition of Joplin's printed music. The film The Sting made Joplin's The Entertainer a national hit. This year came the bestselling novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (TIME, July 14); a central figure is the black ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. As Walker sits down...
...German Gothic cathedral, constructed to commemorate the Civil War dead. Plagued for almost a century by its non-functioning heaters in the numbing winters, super-retention of heat in the sweltering summers, and the perennial disturbance of sirens emanating from the fire station across the street, the otherwise perfect concert hall was shunned not only by performing groups, but kept audiences snug in the coziness of their homes and dorms while marvelous concerts were played to near empty houses...
Died. Ima Hogg, 93, spirited Houston oil heiress and arts patron whose benefactions to the Houston Symphony, which she helped to found in 1913 after abandoning a budding career as a concert pianist, and other cultural causes made her the doyenne of Lone Star society; of complications after a fall suffered while traveling in London...