Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Concert of Powers...
...Hungarian relief concert in London, hot-lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and five local cats out-blasted the whole blasted Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which sought to play under the hesitant, finally motionless, baton of Conductor Norman Del Mar. After running wild until shortly before midnight, Satchmo, on hand as a guest artist to fill out, not ruin, the Philharmonic, loped off stage while a flustered impresario temporarily confiscated his trumpet to prevent an all-night encore. But the hep types filling Royal Festival Hall screamed and stomped for more. (One of the most insistent: the rock-'n'-rolling...
...loving friend). "It was very little, very dirty, very uncomfortable," says Jacques Parrenin. "Our wives didn't want to live there." Actually, after some refurbishing, all members and their families have lived there contentedly for the past eight years, played from morning till night. They got a few concert dates, and in 1952 came the break: they were asked to play a difficult modern work (by Germany's Hans Werner Henze) at a German music festival. Other quartets had taken one look at the score and declined, but the Parrenins accepted, found themselves on the way to fame...
...powerful climax of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, superbly acted and sung by Bulgaria's Boris Christoff. Festival showed, far more eloquently than in its first edition ten months ago, that TV can add to music a certain intimate magic, and even some musical values not available in concert halls. There are probably millions of viewers who find the wait between such shows too long, and would be grateful for an occasional festival or semi-festival sprinkled through the year...
Ending the concert on a nice light-hearted note, Miss Smith sang Nor-man Shapiro's Songs from the Animal Kingdon; the texts are among the wittiest of Ogden Nash's poems. It is worthwhile following the career of Sarah Jane Smith; she is already very good, and she gets better all the time...