Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Band announced the election of the following officers for 1968-69: Robert Whittemore '69, manager; Donald Tuckwiller '70, co-student conductor; Timothy Feige '70, treasurer; Michael Silver '70, alumni relations director; William van Arsdall '70, record manager; Daniel O'-Connell '70, concert master...
Thirty years have passed since Trumpeter Harry James peeked out between the curtains at the overflow audience in Carnegie Hall and whispered: "I feel like a whore in church." That was the night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist...
Brubeck has been working on Light for the past two years in hotel rooms and airplanes during tours with the quartet. But it has only been since the quartet's last concert in Pittsburgh on Dec. 26 that he has had time to put in a full day's work on the score. Recently it was given its world premiere by a student chorus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, under Professor Lara Hoggard, in a utility version for organ, percussion, chorus and baritone solo; its first orchestra performance is scheduled by the Cincinnati Symphony...
...life story would make an operatic libretto in itself. The illegitimate child of a Finnish actor and a German actress, she was raised by her grandfather, an unconventional dabbler in voice and piano coaching, fiction, painting and sculpture. He trained her himself, and launched her at twelve on a concert tour. When she was 16, he allowed her to begin her apprenticeship in opera...
Died. Howard Lebow, 32, U.S. concert pianist; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Amherst, Mass. One of the youngest and most promising of U.S. pianists, Lebow toured 15 countries after his 1963 Manhattan solo debut, played the works of such modern composers as Edward Levy and Erich Kahn with an adventurousness that sometimes startled the critics but more often won their applause...