Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday Night Concert Series: Leonard Shure, pianist, at Sanders Theatre. Tickets available at Loeb Drama Center. There will be a concert every Monday until August...
...variety of performers plugging into the bank of amplifiers on the arena stage during five concerts showed how many tributaries the mixed stream of pop music draws on today-from blues (Paul Butterfield) and jazz (Trumpeter Hugh Masakela) to folk (English Singer Beverly) and country and western (Johnny Rivers). Ravi Shankar, whose classical sitar playing has been so enthusiastically applauded and imitated in the U.S. jazz and pop world that he has opened a school for Indian music in Los Angeles, had an entire concert to himself. A capacity audience sat breathlessly silent during his hypnotic droning and twanging...
Like some Michelangelo who carves peach pits, or a Shakespeare whose medium is the haiku, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler has found that there are grave drawbacks to being the best of a rare breed. His tongue-twisting technique and feathery phrasing have dazzled concert audiences for more than a quarter-century; but purists still dismiss his performances of classical music as gimmickry, akin to playing horn concertos on a length of garden hose. Now and then, such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Darius Milhaud have written pieces for him, but the repertory for harmonica remains woefully thin; most...
Reedy Skittering. That is only one of the handicaps Adler has faced over the years. In 1949, after he was accused of being a Communist sympathizer, he went into professional exile from the U.S., making London his concert, TV and recording base as well as his home.* Except for a year-long sojourn in 1959, he has returned only for occasional engagements since...
...mind he apparently passes the test, for he is now seeking Thornton Wilder's approval for a musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth. "At the moment, I feel I'm a kind of footnote in musical history," Adler explains. "I've put something into concert music that wasn't there before. But if I could make a real mark as a composer, it would give me more satisfaction than playing...