Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show closes next month after playing Philadelphia and Washington. Sitting last week in his dressing room, cluttered with the paintings he works on between shows, he tapped his shaven skull with nervous, spatulate fingers and speculated about what he would do next. In the fall he will present a concert show on Broadway starring himself and his wife and including no calypso at all. "Dancing," he says in his soft West Indian voice, "is something I have to do." He intends to continue choreography, perhaps attempt to compose to some U.S. jazz music. "But first I will have to knock...
Killmayer: Missa Brevis and Harrison: Mass (Margaret Hillis conducting the New York Concert Choir and Orchestra; Epic). The Fromm Music Foundation, joint sponsor with Epic records of the excellent Twentieth Century Composers Series, takes a look at current choral writing. Young (29) Munich-born Composer Wilhelm Killmayer's Missa Brevis ripples with exciting, shifting rhythms and rises skillfully to a colorful series of blasting choral climaxes occasionally more reminiscent of the bandstand than the choir. Oregon-born Composer Lou Harrison, 39, found the inspiration for his moving, low-pitched Mass in the percussion-accompanied plain song of the Indians...
...outdoor record. Warmer-dam, for one, had seen the new heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...
...Boston Pops. The champagne pops on the lowest level, but the music and seats for $.50 are in the second balcony. Seats for the Friday and Saturday shows are scarce, but buy now for later. On this side of the Charles, the Bach Society Orchestra will give a concert Sunday evening at 8:15. For $.75 in Paine Hall. Friday at 8:30 p.m. there will be a Piston Seminar also in Paine Hall. David Gross will give a piano recital Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in Leverett House. Free...
...last minute attempt to take the Committee's finances out of the red, the Jubilee group has decided to allow upper-classmen to attend its Friday night dance-concert. Among the performers at the Union event will be Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, and Milt Hinton...