Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musicians onstage to the last hipster in the auditorium, had a fine time. Conductor Reiner, who started off his career as a percussionist, was so pleased that he took time off during a rehearsal for an impromptu jam session (see cut). Chicago News Critic Irving Sablosky welcomed the concert as a "meeting place ... for twelve-tone music and its more popular cousin, 'progressive jazz' . . . This wasn't the end, man, but it was an interesting beginning...
Claus Bahnson, pianist and conductor from Copenhagen, Denmark, now teaching at the University of Rochester, will give two musical programs here next Monday and Tuesday. Bahnson will lecture on the psychology of music with piano illustrations, in Agassiz House, Monday, and give a piano concert featuring contemporary Scandinavian music in Phillips Brook House, Tuesday...
...motet Jesu, Meine Freude, which opened the Society's Sunday concert, exemplifies one difficulty peculiar to music for "chamber chorus." In a small group, Bach's vocal demands--no matter how great--cannot be conveniently ignored by concentrating purely on massed sound. When the Bach Society Chorus disappointed at all, it did so in technical respects. Conductor Howard Brown clearly brought out individual lines of counterpoint, but the sheer effort required to sing all the notes reasonably in tune resulted in a tone that was often coarse and piercing...
Inclusion of a solo cantata in Sunday's program provided excellent contrast to the choral sound. Above all, Rameau's Le Berger Fidele requires style to sustain the text's nonsense. Fortunately the soloist was Jean Lunn, whose lovely voice is not yet tired from a heavy concert schedule. Her phrasing, diction, and impeccable vocal ornamentation placed the cantata's fluffiness in a proper musical perspective...
...British Columbia recordings past the million mark in sales (MGM Records plans to market U.S. releases soon). With the proceeds Father MacEwan helped rebuild his parish church of St. Margaret's, Lochgilphead in Argyll, Scotland and contributed to both a mental and a TB hospital. Now he accepts concert engagements only during his vacation. Says he: "Eleven months of the year, I do my ordinary job. I sing only Masses and benediction and all. My parishioners are quite used...