Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago the HRO commanded more attention and respect than any Harvard musical organization. James Yannatos was new as conductor. The best instrumentalists belonged as a matter of course and were envied for their positions. HRO concerts were keenly anticipated musical events, and the orchestra matched expectations with uniformly impressive programs. In a single concert, they might have played Berlioz's "Roman Carnival" Overture, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Beethoven's Seventh. All Sanders was rapt, and one distinctly felt that something important was happening...
Friday night was the first HRO concert I've gone to in about a year. I was looking forward to hearing the group again, especially with the program they had prepared. But the concert was oddly disappointing. The orchestra is better than it has been in the past, more sure of itself technically, and more capable of dynamic contrast. But there was something missing--a spark of enthusiasm, a sense of excitement...
ZERO HOUR (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Zero Mostel in a one-man concert of singing, dancing and comedy...
...Oregonian's notion, outlined in a letter to 20 other Republican Governors, was that they should all meticulously refrain from supporting any of the potential contenders until, after "continual pulse feeling," they could all move "in concert toward selection of the Republican who has the best chance of victory next year." If the Governors were thus able to unite behind one man, concluded McCall, their choice would "almost certainly" carry the 1968 G.O.P. convention...
Bended Knee. That examination over, Buswell packed his 1720 Strad and dashed back to Cambridge, Mass., to study for exams at Harvard, where he is a sophomore carrying a full load of classes. Though his 50-city concert tour this season means that he will miss 40% of his classes, he bones up on lectures taped for him by an admiring Radcliffe coed. "I take my books on tour," he says, "but it's like a child sucking his thumb. They comfort me, make me feel virtuous. But I'm always disastrously behind." Nevertheless, he caught up well...