Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musician more inclined to the fraternization of a large group, there are two orchestras, the University band (composed of a concert wind ensemble and marching band), and a 20-member jazz band. The various vocal organizations include the Harvard Glee Club (a traditional men's chorus of about 75 which appears occasionally with women's college choruses to perform a standard mixed chorus repertoire), the Collegium Musicum, which will perform Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony this year, the University church choir, the Radcliffe Choral Society, a newly formed women's chorus, the Krokodiloes and the Kuumba singers...
That official disapproval must have been particularly cruel irony, since Shostakovich had been a rallying point and something of a hero for Russians in World War II. In 1942 his Seventh Symphony was played at a concert in Moscow. Through the thunder of kettledrums in the symphony's last movement, the wail of air-raid sirens was heard, but no one left the hall. With the final burst of dazzling sound the audience sprang to its feet and gave a long ovation to the pale, gaunt composer...
This idea is carried even farther in Aalto's latest building, Finlandia House, Helsinki's concert and convention center, where the European security conference was held (TIME, Aug. 4). Standing alone in a bayside park, it looks like a beached iceberg-an immense, rugged structure clad in snowy white marble. On one side, the building rides gently over some rocky ledges (which in the U.S. would probably have been dynamited away); on another, it retreats in scalloped curves from nearby trees...
...large women walks onto the empty concert stage. Before the audience has had a chance to quiet down, she begins to make strange animal-like noises. Shrieks and grants alternate with sung vowels and machine gun like repetitings of consents as her voice gyrates wildly like a deranged roller-coaster. Her mood and the accompanying facial contortions change every few seconds...
...Harvard Summer School Chamber Players will present Des Paradise and die Perie, an oratorio by Robert Schumenn. Leon Kirchner will conduct. This is the Chamber Players' last concert of the season, and chances are they will finish up at the same high level of quality they've sustained all summer. Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater...