Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...songs Springsteen had written were good enough for a smash single, the Boss snarled, "You want another one, you write it." Then he sat down on his bed, guitar in hand, and composed Dancing in the Dark. No book could possibly capture the emotional peaks of a Springsteen concert, but this one gives Bossmaniacs plenty more reasons to believe...
They laughed when Andres Segovia sat down to play the guitar. The nerve of the ( man, bringing a flamenco instrument into the hallowed precincts of the concert hall. "That stupid young fellow is making useless efforts to change the guitar -- with its mysterious, Dionysiac nature -- into an Apollonian instrument," wrote one skeptic after Segovia's 1910 debut in Madrid. "The guitar responds to the passionate exaltation of Andalusian folklore, but not to the precision, order and structure of classical music...
That assessment was, to say the least, inopportune. When he died last week at 94 in the Spanish capital, Segovia had put the guitar on a near equal footing with the piano, violin and cello as a solo concert instrument; he had also won for himself a place among the most influential performers of the 20th century...
This year, the council ventured into new grounds, expanding its role as student government into social organizer. The council, together with Student Productions Association, succeeded in bringing Elvis Costello to Bright Arena for a concert, the first such concert in three years. The council's co-sponsorship of the Memorial Hall party was a move designed to promote campus unity, members...
RECOVERING. Johnny Cash, 55, craggy-faced, gravel-voiced country singer (I Walk the Line, A Boy Named Sue); from exhaustion, brought on by high blood pressure, during a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa; at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn...