Word: concert
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...GLEE CLUB chose a concert of Lamentations, showing a variety of Renaissance approaches to a particular problem. Like the Magnificat section from Luke, the Lamentations of Jeremiah were a favorite text because of their outstanding beauty and emotional depth. In fact, the Lamentation remains a standard church form for use around Good Friday. Jeremiah's sense of suffering captures the appropriate Christian feeling at that time of year: "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." In an age when religion and music were inextricably bound, many of the great masters created vocal settings that rival...
...think that Renaissance music is esoteric and boring here is your chance to find out differently. On Saturday, the Glee Club will present a concert of Renaissance Lamentations which should continue their long tradition of subtle and moving performances of this music...
...give an introverted kid the chance to play the tuba or be in the debating club or be a tackle." So to keep an impoverished San Francisco school system from canceling this year's athletic program for lack of money, Graham staged one of the biggest rock concerts since the glory years of Haight-Ashbury. Along with Varsity Stars Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Santana, even Marlon Brando showed up at Kezar Stadium to plead for contributions. Last week, just before the musicale got under way, however, Bay Area newspapers disclosed that the board...
Plans for a large concert are also being considered for Sunday afternoon, but the council has "run into a lot of complications," he said...
...Band's conductor Thomas G. Everett (who moonlights as president of the international Trombone Association) caught the spirit of P.D.Q. Bach's music, much as millions of P.D.Q.'s contemporaries caught the bubonic plague and various other diseases. After beginning the concert with an accurate and witty performance of Charles Ives's Country Band March. Everett conducted a series of progressively less interesting pieces, as if to lessen the shock of the Serenoodle. And if the Band's playing was occasionally imprecise or out of tune, that was all right. One felt that, somehow, P.D.Q. wouldn't have wanted...