Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play, Cliburn's victory was hardly assured; indeed, on his U.S. record, he could not have been expected to whip up such frenzy. Born in Shreveport, La., the son of an oil executive, Cliburn grew up in Kilgore, Texas, studied the piano with his mother, a onetime concert pianist named Rilda Bee. He had no other training until he enrolled at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music in 1951 to study with Russian-born Teacher Rosina Lhevinne. He won the Leventritt Award for young pianists in 1954, and as a result made his debut with the New York...
...their final concert of the season, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra presented an ambitious, well-balanced program of Handel, Bartok and Schubert. It was evident that a great deal of care and hard work had gone into the preparations for the concert, and there were many fine moments during the evening...
...apparent that, despite the generally high level of performance, there was very little of the excitement or festive feeling which should have been a part of a concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the oldest orchestra in the world...
...Pierian Sodality will celebrate its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary tonight with a concert, performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders Theatre, followed by a dance in Memorial Hall...
Pierian usually sponsors a joint choral-orchestral concert as a highlight of the year's schedule, following the pattern of joint concerts started in 1943. Boston's Chorus Pro Musica, the Brandeis University Chorus, the Glee Club and Choral Society have all joined with the orchestra in recent years, as have the Lexington and Framingham Choral Societies. This year's performance of Haydn's Creation was a renewal of association between the three Harvard musical organizations after a separation of four years...