Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today Robert Gartside '50 leaves this country for a fellowship abroad. Before leaving, however, the assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club sang a farewell concert which must rank locally as his greatest personal musical achievement. Not only was his choice of program excellent, but he was also in better vocal form then ever before...
...played football in the central squares of French towns, heard Schweitzer play cathedral organs, learned how to drink innumerable toasts of champagne at official receptions; but more than anything else, they showed European audiences that Americans can sing. As the newspaper Petit Parisien commented after the Club's first concert: "One can say that the students of Harvard posses the true art of singing in the profoundest degree...
...their performances the men sang everything from Bach and Palestrina to "Fair Harvard." As the New York Herald's Paris edition commented, the Club had shown that there was something besides jazz in America. They also performed in many famous cathedrals, including a concert under the stars in the shell of Verdun Cathedral...
...Pianist Emil Gilels headed West for a guest appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first U.S. performance by a topflight Soviet musician since 1921; Violinist David Oistrakh will come soon for a U.S. concert tour, followed, perhaps, by famed Ballerina Galina Ulanova...
...Reader Brace has plenty of company. Wrote Howard University's late Philosopher Alain Locke: "James Chapin has pioneered significantly in exploring the deeper traits and personalities of Negro subjects." His better-known subjects: Negro Boxer, Negro Girl, Blues Concert (of Actress Ethel Waters), and Ruby Green Singing (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). Thurgood Marshall is Chapin's first TIME cover...