Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legendary conductor/impressarios/grad student director Gerald Moshell, who, in his eighth year here has become something of an institution in Harvard musical life, has organized another extravagant concert--this time, of what he calles "dynamite and accessible" 20th century concertos. Part of Moshell's magical touch is that despite the limits of rehearsal time and space, he always manages to pull off successful large-scale productions, replete with taste and finesse. This Saturday night's concert will feature the Prokofieff Third Piano Concerto, the Strauss Oboe Concerto, and works for chamber ensemble by Stravinsky and Grandjany. In order to accommodate everyone...
...Concerto Concert with the Kirkland Festival Orchestra featuring Gerry Moshell, conductor Stephen Drury, piano and Kip Wilkins, oboe. Prokofieff Piano Concerto No. 3, Strauss Oboe Concerto, plus chamber works for harp and tenor by Grandjany and Stravinsky. Kirkland House...
David Commanday '76 is this year's winner of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's concerto competition held Wednesday night in Paine Hall. Commanday will be the soloist with the orchestra on its March 12 concert in a performance of Schelomo, a Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch...
...first concert tour of the West Coast since 1948, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz almost began on a bad note. During a pre-concert shopping excursion through Seattle, Horowitz, 71, suddenly found himself wedged in a supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before...
Freleng's Rhapsody Rabbit features Bugs as a concert pianist laying waste one of Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies. Hair-Raising Hare, directed by Jones, pits Bugs against both a Peter Lorre prototype and the sneaker monster, showing the rabbit at his most unflappable. As he struggles to hold a wooden castle door closed against his pursuer, he calls out: "Is there a doctor in the house?" A silhouette appears on the screen, as if from the audience, and says: "Yes, I'm a doctor." Bugs, suddenly taking an insouciant munch on a carrot and ignoring the peril...