Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concert pianist who pays him to stay away, the drifter composes pleasant little themes for the ladies he sleeps with-a slow-witted waitress, a sloe-eyed French chanteuse (Sadja Marr). The singer has a little boy who may be Alan's and who, like the drifter, improvises every moment as it comes. In the end, Alan tries to create a theme for the child, and finds his fingers inarticulate. It proves to be the one relationship that he cannot end with "Ciao, baby...
Proliferating jargon is a good indication of the bewildering variety of musical organizations, clubs, societies, performing groups, concert series, and auditoria that make up the Harvard musical world. As any musically inclined freshman will tell you, the newcomer to Cambridge is faced with a wide variety of opportunities to express himself in music and, especially at certain times of the year (early December and May) a plethora of musical events to attend...
Beyond the world of musical stage productions is an entirely different sphere of musical activity: the world of the House concert. Here the music is produced on an entirely different scale, concentrating on solo recital, chamber music and, at largest, chamber chorus...
...there were productions of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw: this year it was hard to decide whether to be more impressed by Leverett's production of The Marriage of Figaro or the Bach Society-Music Club concert performance of Fidelio. The more ambitions these projects become, the more time, money and professional assistance are necessary to carry them off. Sometimes one of these works is lucky enough to get the intensive study and careful preparation is deserves, as in the case of Figaro. Occasionally, however, rehearsal...
...immense, and most of it is sincere and wholly admirable. Enthusiasm and native musicality are hardly ever lacking, and programs often exhibit an ingenuity and esprit that would be hard to find elsewhere. Leverett's Fall Bach and the Beatles production and the Music Club's all-Ives concert are prime examples of music here at its intelligent best...