Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taught his son to rely on his own ears and himself. Charles Ives went to Yale, took some music courses but didn't like his teachers' insistence on doing things in traditional ways, continued to prefer out-of-tune psalms sung at camp meetings to romantic orchestrations played in concert halls, went out and became an insurance agent and then a partner in his own insurance agency. During the day Ives sold insurance, managed the firm, worked on a manual explaining how to induce potential customers to sit back under a barrage of "authoritative data" forcing them to acknowledge that...
Lynn Chang, fresh from his spectacular first prize in the Paganini, and Richard Kogan, fresh from his spectacular performance with the Bach Society, play the Kreutzer and Brahms's 3rd violin sonata at the Gardner Museum Sunday afternoon--but they'll be playing a similar concert next week at Sanders, closer to home. Also of special interest is Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, for piano and narrator, Saturday evening at Currier House...
...BACH Society Orchestra is nothing like the old one, as last Saturday's concert readily proved. We've seen, at least for this year, the last of the showman's concerts, replete with publicity gimmicks and histrionic conducting, and the first of the music-lover's concerts, which stand firmly on its own musical integrity. It's easy to prophesy that this year the Bach Society will deliver some of its finest concerts ever...
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G completed the concert with half a dozen curtain calls and rounds of applause. Richard Kogan, in his solo performance, achieved a combination of passion and sweetness expressed through an extraordinary technique that no other pianist at Harvard has paralleled. Pianistically, the Fourth Concerto is probably the most difficult of the five Beethoven wrote. But Kogan played the intricate passages of trills and double thirds seemingly without effort, while on a large scale he projected a carefully balanced scheme of dynamics that caught and held the audience's attention. Combined with the grandeur...
Reed himself admits that he has more in common with Calvin Coolidge than with Dionysus. Bacchanalian plots and extended riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California...