Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Programs already planned include a folk music concert and a debate about Black Power. "We will try to make the services flexible and interesting," McLoughlin said. He added that he hopes other interested students will volunteer to prepare future services...
...wasn't the same Harvard Band that tooted its way through the football season and a concert three months ago. It couldn't have been. The intonation Friday night was so astoundingly improved, the solo work so nearly impeccable, the ensemble so often perfect, that one was simply forced to drool in anticipation of the band's next concert...
...being one by Anton Bruckner is a typical Walkerism. A respect for music, musicianship, and monkey business--with the present emphasis on improving the second--is rapidly creating out of the clubby organization a real wind ensemble. Problems remain, but on the basis of the improvement over the previous concert, one can of the improvement over the previous concert, one can safely predict that, given time, Walker will surmount...
Miroir de Votre Faust for piano solo opened the program. The piece depends to large extent on improvisation in concert by the performer. Mme. Mercenier rose to the occasion, displaying creative as well as interpretive powers by giving life and rhythm to metrically unnoticed sections. Miroir offers the musician other problems and pleasures. The pages, unbound so that the music can be shuffled around before performance, contain many "windows"--rectangular holes that allow one to see through to the next one or two pages. The performer cannot be sure what is coming next or what will return in an entirely...
COMPLETING the program was Jeu de Miroir de Votre Faust for piano and tapes, controlled respectively by Mme. Mercenier and M. Pousseur. Jeu is a reflection upon both Miroir and Votre Faust, Pousseur's newly-completed opera. Created expressly for this concert, Jeu is a reduced version of Miroir with electronic sounds superimposed. A favorite was the conspicuous return of Miroir's syrupy melody followed by a gripping cry of anguish from the loudspeakers. It was good to see this theme receive its just desserts...