Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students who showed up last week for the previously announced band concert at Syracuse University's Grouse Hall were in for a jolt. The band had been canceled, and in its place was a performance with two pianos that were out of tune with each other, a soprano who bent her notes off pitch, and a chamber ensemble that blatted, swooped and squeaked like an ordinary orchestra warming up. At first it all sounded merely crabbed and comic, but soon it also took on the astringent freshness of a brave new musical vocabulary. It was a group...
...Syracuse concert-in which the two pianos were tuned a quarter tone apart-was a repeat of a program put on by the Contemporary Music Society at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, where it was such a success that Columbia Records decided to record it. Three young New York composers-Teo Macero, Calvin Hampton and Donald Lybbert-wrote new scores for the occasion in which colliding lines sometimes sent out strangely affecting shivers of dissonance. But the most musical mo- ments were heard in three piano pieces by the late eccentric genius of 20th century American music, Charles Ives...
...face of it, conductor Daniel Hathaway seemed to have limited his ambition to a formal concert performance without dialogue. Actually he failed to resist the temptation of doing Fidelio as a stage production as well...
...music wonk predicted that "this was the year they would do Gotterdammerung on a card table." He wasn't far off. Saturday night the Music Club mounted what was billed as a concert performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio...
...shape of the Sanders stage made it necessary to have the entire chorus stage right, facing stage left at right angles to the audience--a position not in the least conducive to projection. Moreover, Sanders is across the street from the fire station, and the wailing sirens interrupted the concert several times...