Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canberra, Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played to a packed house. The concert program listed Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, to be followed by Tchaikovsky. But, because of a last-minute switch in conductors, there was an unannounced change in the schedule: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony became the major work, followed by Berlioz' Hungarian March. Sibelius-whose disciplined power is poles apart from the romantic extravagance of Tchaikovsky-was off the program entirely...
Both Maro, 30, and Anahid, 28, are traditionally trained musicians, graduates of the Juilliard School, and fully able to serve the U.S. concert circuit with the generous helpings of Brahms and Beethoven that keep audiences happy. But planning a program seems to them rather like planning a menu. If the artist does not include something from contemporary life, it is like leaving out the meat and potatoes. Their career in contemporary music got its impetus from the fact that they are of Armenian descent. While still a student at Juilliard, in 1942, Maro had to prepare a concerto and chose...
...opening its Concert Series with the Budapest Quartet and closing on Sunday afternoon with the Paganini, Picrian sodality has made comparisons inevitable. The contrast, however, is not of mere quality--both are superb organizations--but rather of differing musical conceptions...
Life is not easy for the Seattle Symphony. At a salary of $11 a rehearsal or concert, musicians earn their livings at other jobs: two violinists are longshoremen., one cellist a bus driver, most others teach music or play in dance bands. But energetic Conductor Katims, 45, made the orchestra sound better than it has in years and proved himself a man to watch among the younger U.S. conductors...
With his orchestra well in hand, Katims schedules everything from Brahms to Morton Gould, interests all sorts of listeners. This season, for the first time, the orchestra's eight-concert subscription series was a complete sellout (2,600 subscribers), Katims also expanded a series of $1-admission concerts in the suburbs (where he sometimes gets a local businessman to take the baton for the concluding number), and so excited one old music lover that she offered a $150,000 apartment building toward a new hall. Next year's budget will be jumped from...