Word: concerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three brilliant virtuosos guaranteed the success of last Friday's Bank-Boston Celebrity Series concert. Leila Josefowicz, a violinist who has survived being branded a child prodigy, performed in two concertos. Andreas Haefliger, a Mozart specialist, was the pianist in another. Jaime Laredo, darling of countless Sony recording projects, conducted the Brandenburg Ensemble and joined Josefowicz as a soloist. All the repertoire was light and bright and ideally suited to the orchestra...
Throughout the piece, as throughout the concert, the musicians seemed to be having fun. At its best, the Brandenburg Ensemble, historically connected with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, evoked the sound of that group's best recordings under Pablo Casals...
...manager at HMV on Brattle Street was busy with an in-store concert given by James, and could only say that HMV was "sorry to lose a competitor, because it's good for the business...
...popular suburban youth cult drawn to black garb and death-rock music. Styling themselves after Manson gives them power: it strikes a blow against conformity and repulses their parents. Manson and his shock troupe never shy away from a chance to indulge in violent titillation. At a Florida concert last fall, Manson squirmed bare-chested on a carpet of broken glass. Conservative groups accuse him of devil worship. Two weeks ago, the band's Oklahoma City concert was picketed by Donald Wildmon's American Family Association...
...Manson's music. But Manson takes no responsibility. Says he: "Parents should raise their kids to listen to an album and know the difference between reality and fantasy." True enough, but it wouldn't hurt if Manson lightened up his own scary, easily misunderstood message. After a Los Angeles concert, a fan was asked what he liked best. With most rock stars "the makeup comes off when they go home," he said. "With Manson it's real...