Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PONDERED the shadows cast by the milling crowd on the cement floor of the Springfield Civic Center, a tap on the shoulder and a low voice accosted me. I had not understood at first, but the voice was saying, "Any 'cid?" Not having been at a Grateful Dead concert for some time, I was baffled. "What?", I asked. "Trips--you know, LSD," replied my prospective customer. (And I never thought I looked like the type.) "No. Sorry," I said, but he had already moved...
...carefree folk tune "I Ain't Got the Blues No More." Johnson, a folksinger and slide guitarist who is well-traveled in the local club scene, made his first public appearance in nearly a year, made and produced many pleasant echo-cascading electric guitar sounds. Jeannie ended the concert alone, playing a pretty dulcimer piece and the intimate "Listen With Your Own Mind...
Doriot Anthony Dwyer, principal flutist with the Boston Sumphony Orchestra, was the only female principal player in any major U.S. orchestra when she was awarded the position twenty-five years ago. This weekend, Dwyer travels across the River from her home-away-from-home concert hall to solo in two large works presented in Friday night's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert. The first work, a Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, was written for her by the late Walter Piston. Dwyer premiered the unrecorded work in 1972 with the BSO under Michael Tilson Thomas...
Although an infrequent concert-goer, I somehow managed to be conned into going to the annual Krok/Whiffenpoof/Tigertone in spring of my freshman year. My most vivid memory of that event, two years later, is of a group of young out-of-town women, apparent veterans of Krok concerts, clamoring for seats in the front row of Sanders. Half-way through a song in the second half, when a bearded and chivalrous Krok stepped out into the audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about...
...audience full of old-and new-timers with a weakness for the snaphappy sound. The Kroks rendition of "Blue Moon", along with its tortuous and ticklish bass line, was worth the price of admission, so if they program it this year, they'd do well to keep the concert short, and release you in time to see Casablanca, which should be leaving the Brattle very soon...