Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early mail-order music clubs included the high-minded Concert Hall Society and the Young People's Record Club. Biggest of today's houses, with fluctuating memberships as high as 225,000: Musical Masterpiece Society, Music Treasures of the World and the Book-of-the-Month Club's Music-Appreciation Records. All of them have had the same disadvantages: no regular big-name performers and merely average sound quality. Nonetheless, they operate at a tidy profit, and some are trying hard to improve their wares, e.g., the Book-of-the-Month Club has begun releasing topnotch Angel...
...Brownlee. Last June he moved his family to Ellenville, N.Y. (pop. 5,000), enlisted the aid of a hotel owner and a tenor-turned-businessman. By last week 110 acres had been converted into festival grounds containing a 4,000-seat amphitheater, a stage that could be adapted for concerts or theater-in-the-round, and floodlights etching the surrounding trees-hemlock, white pine, maple and cherry. The Empire State Music Festival was ready for business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley...
...even that would hardly have bothered Shaw. If he could not find a controversial subject in the concert hall, he got one from outside. He took for granted that a music column was just the place for discussions of a Dickens novel, the French Revolution, the paintings of Tintoretto, Ibsen's Wild Duck, the salaries of bishops. "Musical criticisms," wrote he, "like sermons, are of low average quality simply because they are never discussed or contradicted." What 20th century music needs, among other things, is more sermons like Preacher Shaw...
Happy Instrument. Banjo Teacher Walter Kaye Bauer of Hartford, Conn., whose big banjo band fills a 2,200-seat auditorium for its annual concert, believes the instrument is being better played now than in its heyday. "In the '20s a few of us warned that the professionals would kill the goose because they banged out nothing but noisy chords," he says. "Today, the professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces...
...figured out that about half of the cantatas' 650-odd arias could be performed by combinations of five instruments and four voices. To prove it, he assembled the aria group, made the discovery, to everyone's surprise that Bach vocal music was a tonic to the U.S. concert box office...