Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shostakovich: Concerto in C Minor (Victor Aller, piano; Mannie Klein, trumpet; Concert Arts String Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). A barrel of fun, vintage 1933. It turns pretentious phrases into taradiddles, uncovers one ear-tickling twist after another, and includes a slow movement that is unfailingly melodious. Standout performance...
...foolish script. But in this picture, Dancer O'Connor is tangled in at least a half-mile of celluloid that should have been left on the cutting-room floor. The love interest: Janet Leigh, in a sweater. The whole thing ends with a sort of death rattle: a concert of "symphonic Dixieland" that seems better calculated to finish jazz than to revive...
...decision to retire at 58 had been made after the war, when she came out of semi-retirement in Norway to return to opera and the world's concert stages. She wanted to quit while she was still in top voice, she said. Besides, she was just plain tired of public life. She wanted to retire to her big house in Kristiansand, on the southern coast of Norway, and sing only when she felt like...
Luise Vosgerschian, prominent Boston pianist, will be the featured soloist in the Music Club's Christmas concert tonight in the Fogg Museum Courtyard...
...disappointed and alarmed by the review of The Messiah in Monday's CRIMSON. Whatever may be the merits of his musical objections. Mr. Litfield renders a severe disservice to the cause of student concert productions here. He complains that"... the Pierian Sodality was fooled into thinking that a Messiah performance could be slapped together in little rehearsal time." The orchestra held nine rehearsals, hired the best available choral conductor, and treated us to the best solo quartet we've heard in Sanders. They went to the trouble of assembling a chorus. to accuse these students of neglect after so much...