Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
...easier to find a good concert than a good course this week Soprano Lucy Shelton is offering an ambitious racital of 20th Century songs including Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens in this year of his 101st birthday. The excellent Music From Mariboro is in town again with chamber music of Hayden, Mozart, and Sir Donald Tovey whose compositions are being revived in his centennial year...
Fromm Foundation Concert; Intonation before Sotoba Komachi by Donald Sur, Pianissimo by Donald Martino, and "Eh Joe" (a musical version of a Beckett television play) by Earl Kim; Sanders...
...intercut with stillborn fictional parables about a scholar who tromps through picturesque locations, searching for himself, or perhaps just for a guitar. There are intellectual asides (Stephen Stills ruminates that "some day words, and the reassurance of words, won't be necessary-soon"), social speculations (a discussion of concert ticket prices segues into a rendition of Find the Cost of Freedom), and heavy images (a needle stashed inside a Bible) of terror and salvation. There is also an occasional felicity: a scene of black, hooded figures carrying wooden crosses, riding hard down a lonely beach, has power and mystery...
...fanatically enforced quarantine regulations. Among them were the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, Napoleon's last home, and a U.S. naval training station in San Francisco Bay, where drinking fountains were sterilized hourly with blowtorches. Nearly everywhere else life for the survivors changed radically. Moviehouses, restaurants and concert halls were ordered shut. Courting became medically dangerous. A sort of mass purdah prevailed as millions learned to breathe, speak, sleep and even play baseball behind surgical masks...