Word: concertants
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...Like a rendezvous with old friends, cellist Gavriel Lipkind and pianist Claudia Schellenberger effortlessly connected through the musical phrases of composers who were diverse in background and style. Ultimately, the palpable bond between the two well-known German performers made the concert exceptional...
...next segment of the concert, “Anniversary Dances,” was prefaced by the appearance of an unexpected guest: the composer himself. In an introduction to his piece, Moravec stated that one of his closest friends, a fellow composer, once said that the meaning of music was love. In this theme, the suite was commissioned in part by Astrid and John Baumgardner for their 30th wedding anniversary. It was against this more personalized atmosphere that the quartet launched into a piece that differed greatly from the first, more formal piece...
...Magor's face is red with anger, when I interrupt him during a concert of one of the legendary underground bands. But later his kind-heartedness overcomes him and with apologetic smiles we step outside for a brief chat...
...lining up - and paying up - for face time with the King of Pop. Earlier this month Jackson came to Tokyo for a series of "fan appreciation events," including a VIP party on March 8 for which guests shelled out $3,500 a ticket to enjoy a buffet dinner, a concert by Japanese Jackson impersonators rather than by the King himself, and a brief one-on-one moment with Jackson in a private cubicle. The event's promoters declined to say how much Jackson was paid, but some 400 people attended - including about 100 orphans and handicapped children invited for free...
...From Boston to Chicago to Asia - the early '80s supergroup sold out a recent Japan tour - the bands "of yore," as Japanese concert promoter Keisuke Hirano calls them, can fill the halls of Yokohama or Osaka or Nagoya with middle-aged salarymen recapturing the youth they wished they had. And being "big in Japan" has kept many a washed-up rocker in leather pants and alimony payments...