Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10--Soviet poet-novelist Boris Pasternak, an absent winner, was honored along with seven attending in person at the 1958 Nobel awards ceremony Wednesay in Stockholm's Concert Hall...
...treated in a manner reminiscent of the Orchestra's conspicuously poor performances of two years ago. Haydn's last symphony, No. 104, in D Major had at least the benefit of a spirited, well-played finale. But the rest of it, and Corelli's "Christmas" Concerto, which opened the concert sounded as if the orchestra were merely going through the motions. The intonation was unaccountably bad, the playing colorless, and the ensemble work in the winds unusually slipshod. The most noticeable defect was the strings' inability to play piano with any tone at all but a rather lifeless one, lacking...
Sheldon Lubow '60, a student of Claudio Arrau, will be the recitalist this Saturday at 2:45 p.m. in a concert at the Gardiner Museum. His program will include a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Chopin's "Funeral March" Sonata, and the last movement from the Samuel Barber Sonata...
...minutes. They were played without pauses, ranged in mood from misty delicacy to raucous riots of sound. One prelude, which Boxing Fan Constant called "The Punch." had a hard. loud, opaque sound, lasted for all of six seconds. In another, the musicians found themselves playing 56 parts simultaneously. At concert's end the audience shrieked and bravoed. the critics registered approval, and Conductor Bernstein acknowledged that he found the whole business "interesting'' and "searching...
When the new House library is opened, the present library in McKinlock will be used as a common room, for meetings and concert programs. The library building will include a reading room, tutors' offices, and seminar rooms, and is connected to McKinlock by an enclosed passageway...