Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backlash from Yale's Shockley affair, Schickele managed to obtain permission to present his latest discovery (commissioned by the Harvard Band) at Sanders Theater last weekend. The piece, which he edited--"tastefully," he claims--and retitled Serenoodle for Northerly winds and Percussion, was not originally composed for the concert band. According to Schickele, Bach's original scoring called for "an Awful Lot of wind and Percussion Instruments," a rare combination in the composer's day, but one which the Harvard Band is admirably suited...
Pianist Van Cliburn, 40, who has created some waves in the music world, reached a high-water mark last week. Before leaving his hotel suite for an evening concert in Roanoke, Va., the virtuoso began running water for a bath. While the tub filled, Cliburn went to his piano, started practicing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, and quickly tuned out the rest of the world. In a dining room below, guests could not hear the maestro's music, but they were soon aware of the bath water that had flooded the pianist's quarters and started seeping across...
With all the offices closing, the best the concert's organizers here could do was to try to apply last-minute pressure to senstors and congressmen who they felt would be friendly to the cause...
Finally, on late Thursday afternoon, an side from Kennedy's office called a concert organizer in New York, telling the person that the State Department had cleared the group as a cultural later the exchange...
...hours later the Immigration office issued its perfunctory cable and the work of the Paris embassy was finally undone--but a week too late, as far as the musicians and the concert organizers were concerned...