Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town center--with shops, community halls, and recreational facilities--that has a roof hung on girders, like a suspension bridge. Since the walls do not hold up anything, they can be moved around. A pub can become a gym and a store can be turned into a concert hall--just by rearranging the walls...
...Lord Harlech, house-guesting at Robert Kennedy's Virginia estate, admitted that he has been invited to join Jackie and friends in a trip to Cambodia next month and would like to go along. ∙∙∙ Five thousand miles from home, having just played a concert at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Artur Rubinstein, 78, was greeting visitors in his dressing room. Among them was a tall fellow who walked up and said: "Permit me to introduce myself. I am your partner." "My partner?" asked the pianist in bewilderment. "Of course," replied the fellow...
...hattan's Philharmonic Hall, the festivities merged as New York began its fall season by vacating the stage to the Viennese. In the Green Room at intermis sion, New York's Leonard Bernstein (who guest-conducted Beethoven's Leonora Overture No. 3 at the concert) embraced Vienna's Karl Bohm and wondered aloud whether the two orches tras might not be brother or sister...
...long while before listeners accept electronic music with any comfort, at least as part of the standard concert-hall experience. The chief complaint is that there is nothing musical about the production of those unique and sometimes eerie timbres and rhythms that the avant-garde composers draw from oscillators and magnetic tape. Now, however, there is enough evidence to suggest that the electronic composers have at last found the ideal setting for their work. They have formed a partnership with the abstract visual arts, to the point where their sounds at last make musical sense...
...signs came. The mercurial Rumanians, whose Latin origins may have instilled a certain coolness toward Slav ic influences, swept the box office clean of tickets for the Californians' two concerts. The black market became so brisk that scalpers were buying from each other, and at one concert, 600 crashers forced their way in. The next night the Russians played; there were enough empty spaces in the hall to drive a tractor around in, and the crowd dwindled further at intermission. It wasn't that Conductor Kiril Kondrashin had given a poor concert; it was just that the exuberance...