Word: concerted
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...used the local theater as a baby-sitter. They'd drop us off at a triple feature and pick us up six hours later." (The boys must be grateful for the benign neglect of Miriam and Max Weinstein; the company is named after them.) After a stint as rock-concert promoters in Buffalo, New York, Harvey and Bob got into film distribution, making their rep with the 1989 hits sex, lies, and videotape and My Left Foot. Often they saw themselves as custom tailors, trimming foreign films to make them more accessible to U.S. audiences and earning the elder brother...
Raitt's last appearance at Harvard was in 1986 when she gave a free concert in the Yard in honor of the College's 350th anniversary...
...difficult to take a concert seriously when it is titled "A Classical Valentine." In fact, it was difficult, at a first glance of the program, to take the concert seriously at all, filled as it was with popular, nearly cliched pieces; such a program qualifies as musical overindulgence. Yet, in their concert on Sunday, the Handel & Haydn Society gave a spectacular performance, only confirming the words of Mae West: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful...
Differences such as these cast an entirely new perspective on Sunday's concert filled with classical favorites. The program consisted of Mozart's Overture to "Le nozze di Figaro" (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, and his Violin Concerto in G Major, K. 216; Rossini's Overture to "L'italiana in Algeri" (The Italian Girl in Algiers), and Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 36 by Beethoven. The performance was conducted by guest conductor Andrew Parrott, who has won critical acclaim for his recordings of Baroque music. However, Parrott's expertise and insight into Classical and Romantic music...
...Valentine theme, as it was composed during the time period in which Beethoven was allegedly in love with the Countess Giulietta Giuccardi to whom he gave piano lessons. Beethoven's enigmatic love life was romanticized in the recent film "Immortal Beloved," bringing these legends to the foreground of concert programming. Though it was written in the Classical period, this early symphony foreshadows his later work and the entire Romantic period. With its sweeping melodies and dramatic dynamic changes, this piece was markedly different from the other pieces in the program. Overall, H&H filled Symphony Hall with a gorgeous, resonant...