Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard will have its first chance to see Charles Munch, new conductor of the Boston Symphony, when the orchestra opens its six-concert Sanders Theater series at 8:30 tonight...
...concert marks the orchestra's 68th season in Cambridge. Students can pick up special rush tickets by going to the comptroller's office in Lehman Hall before 3 p.m. Sales yesterday were heavy...
...past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs...
...unfortunate in view of the crowd that the concert, sponsored by the Harvard Department of Music, was not better. Mr. Brown, playing the cello, rarely matched the musicianship of his partner. The Piano part was played by Mr. Simonds in a fashion that left little to be desired. Not only was it technically excellent, but there was enough personality and feeling injected into it to make it brilliant...
...fairness it cannot be said, however, that the concert was not enjoyable. There were several moments of great beauty, especially in the slow moments of the sonatas and in the eleventh variation on the Mozart theme. Mr. Brown succeeded in putting a great deal of feeling into his playing at these times. All the singing qualities of the instrument that were missing in other movements appeared here...