Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nausea. No sharp pain. A mild disgust, and a quick defensive rallying of your forces. Your wits are keyed to concert pitch, nothing can escape you, you are intensely self, conscious. You have utter and absolute control over all your nerves. You go right on lying there in his arms letting what must have gone rigid inside you with his words go rigid away inside your skin, so his arms can't sense the difference, can't feel the animal flinch that maybe after all you couldn't avoid...
With the emphasis on chamber music this weekend, your best bet should be the all-Messaien concert at Kirkland House on Friday. The program will feature the superb Quartet For The End Of Time, which Messaien composed in a German prisoner of war camp. The limitations he faced there gave rise to some of his best writing. Four of the best undergraduate musicians will be performing...
...Evening of Traditional Music and Dance; Ted Gevin and Friends. The New Cambridge Morris Men; a concert to be followed by contra and square dancing; Adams C-Entry...
...Conductor Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony were playing Carter's granitic Concerto for Orchestra (1969) in the War Memorial Opera House. In March, Pierre Boulez will preside over the world premiere of a new Duo for Violin and Piano at a New York Philharmonic Prospective Encounters concert. At 66, Carter would seem to be in danger of becoming that rare thing in contemporary music, a composer in vogue...
...Georg Solti is playing my Variations for Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony. He decides to invite me, all expenses paid, to attend the concert. When does the telegram arrive? On the day of the concert. He is in Chicago; I am in New York, with classes to teach. What...