Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HENRY, SWEET HENRY lured theatergoers into picking up $400,000 worth of tickets in advance of its opening. These venture-capitalists have a dismal evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch...
...need not romanticize Mill's age, nor pretend that the university students of whom he spoke acted in radical concert to revise the foundations of their time. They were, in their own way, as readily absorbed into the hierarchy of domestic civil service and foreign imperialism as students of our own society are absorbed into comparable institutions...
...tenors of Princeton and Harvard traded high B-flats and harmonized with a police siren last night in the annual Harvard-Princeton Football Concert. For Cambridge this is a musical ritual matched only by the semi-annual Dionysiac rites of the Gilbert and Sullivan players...
Schubert loomed large in last night's concert, on as well as off the program. Princeton began the evening with five of the composer's works for male chorus. As a convinced German Romantic, I can hardly object to this choice of music sui generis; but the texture of these pieces is so consistently homophonic, and the rhythmic pattern and figuration of accompaniment so adamantly constant that even I found the novelty wearing off after a while. What makes Schubert worth listening to are the exquisite tunes of harmony with which he glides so effortlessly from one surprising...
...second half of the concert was in a decidedly lighter vein. Princeton sang songs im Volkston from the U.S., Russia and a little town in New Jersey. With traditional libidinousness, Harvard sang Morely's Say, dear, will you not have me, The Old Maid's Song (from Pulaski County, Ky.) and Randall Thompson's Tarantella. The latter featured both a sensitive rendering of the accompaniment by Philip Kelsey and the perfect concordance of a police siren with a third-inversion F-seven chord, giving Cambridge the world's only police department with perfect pitch...