Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Brubeck's Quartet will present a special jazz concert this afternoon at 3 p.m. in the Freshman Union Common Room. The concert, featuring Paul Desmond, is sponsored by the Harvard New Jazz Society...
Archibald T. Davison '05, retiring James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, will be honored tonight with a special Glee Club concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include many of Davison's own musical arrangements...
...Watch him as with his quick step he walks upon the concert platform and begins to lead the chorus. He is electric with energy and controlled enthusiasm . . . Listen to him as he talks to the men between pieces . . . They follow his every motion, listening to his every word . . . It is the old, old story of the power of personality." So eulogized a Boston critic...
Woodwind compositions find their way into modern concert halls only infrequently; music for two bassoons practically never. Yet an entire literature exists for the "bass oboe"- as it is sometimes called-both solo and in ensemble. As Sunday night's program indicated, the great wealth of such music lies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; evidently it was the nineteenth that bannished bassoons from the recital stage to the Stygian regions of the orchestra...
...Dance Concert (Jerry Fielding Orchestra; Trend LP). A fine, fresh-sounding band from the West Coast gives a new lilt to such oldies as When I Grow Too Old to Dream...