Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 150 Harvard performers, ranging from dancers to a rock band, will strut their stuff for charity tonight in the fourth annual Jazz for Life concert...
Proceeds from the two-and-one-half hour concert will be donated to Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee...
...visitor to Robert McFarlane's Washington office a few months ago was surprised to see the former National Security Adviser kick the air boyishly in celebration. He had just wangled two tickets to a Naval Academy Glee Club concert in which his son was to appear. That unexpected display of emotion was memorable for its rarity, since Bud McFarlane is a man whom the word taciturn might have been invented to describe. But powerful emotions evidently boil behind McFarlane's studiedly enigmatic face, and last week they found a sad outlet...
...real question, though, was, How would it sound? Opened in 1891, the Manhattan concert hall has long been renowned for its rich sound. Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler once remarked that the hall with the best acoustics was the one with the best performances, but at Carnegie, second-rate symphonies sometimes sounded first rate. There, the resonance bathed performers in a mellow amber glow, and at orchestral climaxes the floor vibrated sympathetically beneath the listeners' feet. What did it matter if the subway occasionally added its profundo rumble to the bass, or if passing fire sirens sounded a wailing obbligato...
...like to get dressed up, go to a really nice fancy dinner and then go to a dance afterward," says Doug M. Cerasoli '89, adding, "either that, or go to a heavy metal concert...