Word: concerted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's provinces, wiry little Harmonica Player Larry Adler was a bust. The British apparently didn't think there was enough musical nourishment in a mouth organ to make a full meal. With two London concerts coming up, Larry Adler, whose mouthings are a big draw in the U.S., arranged a special press concert to persuade reviewers that he is something more than a campfire musician...
...second concert of the Harvard Symposium on Music Criticism offered last night in the Memorial Church a program of three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang...
Performances at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Bedford and the Cushing General Hospital in Framingham will round out the Band's good-will activities for the term. The Bedford Concert is slated for May 7, Hospital Day in that community, while the afternoon of entertainment for hospitalized veterans in Framingham will take place...
Featuring today's half of the symposium are talks by Virgil Thomson and Olga Samaroff at 10:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre and a cheral concert at 6:30 o'clock this evening in Memorial Church...
...task of commenting on the music commissioned for the Harvard Symposium's first concert seems a rather precarious one after Roger Sessions' afternoon address laying down his premises as to "The Scope of Musical Criticism...