Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOROWITZ IN CONCERT (Columbia; 2 LPs). Vladimir Horowitz is an artist of excruciating insight, courage and magnetism. His own nobility leaves no room for banality in song or style-and he therefore gave Columbia a hard time before finally approving the release of these widely varied selections from two 1966 Carnegie Hall recitals. Perfectionist that he may be, Horowitz should rest assured that his most hard-bitten critics will find a multitude of moments to cheer in this moving album...
...masses who have been left out will have their chance, for the Met will come out to them. This week the company announced plans to give concert versions of La Bohéme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca in New York parks this summer-the first free public performances in its 82-year history. The series of nine performances will have an estimated potential audience of 400,000, more than half as many people as attend the Met's entire regular season...
Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...
...Rostropovich gave a benefit concert Monday evening for the Harvard Summer School and the Cambridge Summer School and the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. The bow has great sentimental value...
...Quarter-tone music has a tremendous potential," says George Pappastavrou, one of the pianists and organizers of the concert. "The thing seems to be snow balling." Yet Ives predicted more than 40 years ago that it might be centuries before composers plumbed the quarter-tone system-or listeners' ears got accustomed to it. Meantime, he warned: "To go to extremes in anything is an old-fashioned habit...