Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed, with 200 concerts a year, some even on musical cruises in the Mediterranean, and new LPs pouring out from RCA, Angel and the mailorder Musical Heritage Society (he has sold 400,000 records for the latter alone)? What spare time Andre has he spends at home in Fontainebleau with his wife Liliane and three of his four children: Lionel, 14, Beatrice, 13, and Nicola, 2; Daughter Dominique, 21, recently made him a grandfather. Andre has a habit of taking long walks and practicing his trumpet deep in the woods. Early one morning after a concert in Munich, Andre drove...
...Cosman Consort. A concert of Medieval and Renaissance Jewish music, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Jewish Music Society. Dec. 8 at 4:00 p.m. Admission $3.50, students...
...MAJORITY of the Kink kultists present, the situation could not have been more utopian. Not only did the concert start promptly, but there was no warm-up group to try the waiting audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like...
...world's greatest pianists at his best and most relaxed. As usual, the temperature in the house was set for 74°. As usual, the recital was scheduled for 4 o'clock in the afternoon ("I hate to wait a whole day for the concert to come," he explains). Horowitz has been known to be stiff early in a recital. "In the beginning, the fingers are cold. Warm water doesn't work. I have to warm up from inside." His crisp, classically elegant way with the opening work, the Sonata in F-Sharp Minor by Muzio Clementi...
Records have been Horowitz's principal and often his only link with his public for years. It is part of musical legend that in 1953, at the peak of his career, Horowitz retired from the concert scene for twelve years. He returned in triumph in 1965 at Carnegie Hall-that album did sell like a rock record-then once again quit the stage in 1969. Explaining his sabbaticals, Horowitz talks in terms of the need for emotional and artistic refueling. "To make a break does purify," he says. It also starts rumormongers talking, as Horowitz is well aware. "People...