Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determine the instrument's tone. Harold Gomberg, who has made trips to Europe in search of cane of the proper hardness, grain and color, maintains a studio where he spends dozens of hours a week whittling reeds to size (he uses as many as three reeds in a concert). The trick in oboe playing is to pay out supplies of breath in small, even quantities. This, says Ralph Gomberg, is a task roughly as taxing as "a strong man trying to juggle eggs without crushing them." Brother Harold is even more pessimistic about the ill wind he blows...
...Concert-Tour Legend. At 33, Fischer-Dieskau has become a concert-tour legend in Europe and the U.S.: almost singlehanded, he has accounted for the postwar popularity of the German art song. On his U.S. tours, he has held audiences rapt through the whole of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise and through the complete Schumann Dichterliebe. He has reached an even wider public through his 40-odd LP recordings, including Hugo Wolf's 16 Songs, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Brahms's German Requiem, albums of Mahler songs...
Still cashing in on his Moscow triumph, Pianist Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. boosted his standard concert fee to $4,000 for an afternoon appearance at the University of Texas, charged $500 for letting students into his morning rehearsal, and picked up $6,000 more for an extra performance later. Delighted to be paying so much for their music, Texans named Van an admiral in the Texas navy...
...also no detriment to any concert to have a soloist like O'Brien Nicholas, whose work over the past few years has been so consistently brilliant that the most one can say is that she sounds even better this year than before. Thomas Beveridge sang with his dependable musicality. And Sharon Price, breaking into the clique, provided the contrast of a more personal and emotional interpretation of her aria which followed an identical one by Miss Nicholas in the opening Bach Cantata...
...Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra will present a joint Christmas concert tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. This performance will mark the first Cambridge performance of Christmas music by the combined chorus and orchestra...