Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else, he began to do the jump-up. "Trinidad's music," he says, "is extraverted stuff that knocks...
When Golschmann went to St. Louis with a three-year contract in 1931 (since renewed, year after year, on a one-year basis), Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner were St. Louis' idea of symphonic music. Golschmann has tried to program at least one 20th-century work every concert. Says he: "The Beethoven fans will have all the best recordings of him anyway, and the young people in the balcony really like contemporary music...
Trinidad has no concert hall and no symphony orchestra, and few visiting artists ever get to Port-of-Spain, its capital, just off the coast of Venezuela. But Trinidadians may well be the world's most musical people. Out of prosaic newspaper headlines they created calypso songs, and out of such unmusical items as oil drums and automobile brake drums they created the world's newest musical combo, the steelband (pronounced steelbon in Trinidad). Both were invented with sure instinct for novelty and self-expression by Trinidad's Negro population...
Margaret Harshaw will leave nothing unheard Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall in a solo concert. 3:30 p.m. Tickets still available...
...them commissioned by the school. The festival, says Juilliard's President William Schuman, "reaffirms [the school's] sense of responsibility toward the music of its own time." Last week the festival opened in Juilliard's University Heights auditorium, 65 blocks north of Carnegie Hall; the concert suggested nevertheless that modern American music is no longer as out-of-the-way as it used...