Word: concert
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WHRB plans instead to broadcast a tape of Sunday night's Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concert. WHRB Vice President James S. Twiss '98 said the station will air a tape-delayed broadcast of the hockey game after the already-scheduled HRO concert...
According to Twiss, WHRB reconsidered its decision to air the concert over the game earlier this week but currently plans to follow its published schedule...
...greatest concert singers of this generation is Marian Anderson, Philadelphia-born Negro contralto. Since she skyrocketed to fame in Salzburg four years ago, the music-lovers and critics of the world's musical capitals have counted it a privilege to hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in Washington, D.C., might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush--much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
Last January, when contralto Anderson's manager tried to book Constitution Hall for a concert in April, D.A.R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D.A.R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. While irate Washingtonians formed a Marian Anderson's Citizens' Committee and held a mass meeting attended by 1,500, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who arrived in Washington on a concert tour, said he was "ashamed" to appear in Constitution Hall under the circumstances...
Your article endorses uncritically the ridiculous claim that our expressions of concern about pornography and explicit violence somehow arise from uneasiness over social activism like the Live Aid concert. Surely you know better than that. Millions of parents like me who grew up with and love rock music are concerned about the new phenomenon of popular songs aimed at younger children that glorify sadomasochism, explicit sex, suicide, incest and the occult. The Parents Music Resource Center is opposed to any Government action to address this problem, but feels that the music industry has a responsibility to address it voluntarily. TIPPER...