Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Band toots off at 2:30 p.m. Sunday from the steps of Widener for a Yard Concert. When the music isn't good, the noise...
Addresses by President Pusey and Dean Bundy will precede a reception at which the employees and their friends and relatives can meet and talk with the officials. The introduction to the ceremonies which will include a concert by the Glee Club, will be given by Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President...
Copland: Piano Concerto (Leo Smit, piano, Radio Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer; Concert Hall). Sometimes called the "Jazz Concerto," this was written in 1926 (three years after Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and went far to establish Copland as a characteristically "American" composer. It is a fairly lurid work, with emphatic syncopations and jazz-age atmosphere; it still works, but it has become pretty corny...
...Orchestra contributed a surprisingly suave rendition of Mozart's Symphony No. 36. The concert really came to life, however, in the Third Symphony of Peter Mennin, a contemporary American composer. While the form of this work is discursive, its incisive rhythms and dramatic orchestration give it a tension and a vitality that the war-horses on the program lacked...
Charles Munch will direct an extra concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall, bringing to a close the BSO's 75th season. The program will be Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, the "Pathetique." Tickets are now available at the box office. Proceeds will go towards the Symphony's summer tour of Europe...