Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls" not only for the classics but for the moderns. TIME'S Music editor listens to the vinyl outpourings, from two dozen record companies, selects the best and most interesting items for review about once a month. This week's group ranges from Mozart to that aging...
Friends & Family. Under the concrete canopy of the Center, there will be an open-air Friendship Promenade which can serve as an exhibition hall, concert hall or picnic ground for the whole community. Indeed, parents are expected to hang around the school almost as much as the children-which is why the outdoor theater is called the Family Bowl...
...direction. But I wonder if he'll ever be able to concentrate on any one thing." To the greater glory of Twenty One, the fear proved well grounded. In Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Charlie Van Doren studied the clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college at the end of his junior year, he abandoned music as a profession. He has since picked up piano and guitar by ear. After graduating from St. John...
...arduous business of being a celebrity, devours every minute of Bernstein's life that escapes the other four. Occasionally fortified with Dexamyl, he copes with interviews, conferences, half a dozen different agents, the management of his income (an estimated $100,000 last year), greenroom receptions and after-concert parties ? at which lie may call for a pot of caviar and talk lucidly for hours...
Until he was 16, Lennie never heard a live symphony orchestra, but later he would often take his girls to Boston's Symphony Hall. One night, he and a girl named Mildred heard Koussevitzky. At the end of the concert there was an ovation, but Lennie just sat there, clapping very softly. "What's the matter?" asked Mildred. "Didn't you like it?" Said Lennie: "I'm so jealous...