Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the bulk of the earnings from the concert must help pay for transportation costs to away football games, the Band will try to raise additional funds by giving more concerts later in the year and by asking Band alumni to contribute money...
Considering its enormous turnover of personnel, not to mention the acquiring of a new conductor, the Bach Society Orchestra performed surprisingly well last night in its first concert of the season. Unfortunately, the group has an almost Olympian reputation and it will take a long period of hard work and playing together before they can meet the standards of past years...
...conductor is John Harbison '60, a former violinist and trombonist in the orchestra. Harbison is an excellent musician, and when he and the orchestra gain more rapport with each other, as they did only occasionally last night, many of the minor imperfections of the first concert will disappear. He needs much more assurance, and is at present far too restrained, especially in making sudden contrasts and shaping phrases...
...concert opened with Gluck's overture to Iphigenia in Aulis, an incredibly repetitive work which was all the more embarrassing in that the same faults came up over and over. The closing piece was Bartok's Roumanian Folk Dance suite, in which the orchestra, with its warmer tone and greater cohesiveness, gave promise of better things in the near future...
THIS YEAR MY HUSBAND HAD THE GREAT HONOR TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL CONCERT IN THE VATICAN, OFFERED TO THE POPE BY THE ITALIAN RADIO-TV. THE POPE CHOSE THE MUSIC HE LOVED MOST, INCLUDING BEETHOVEN'S FIRST SYMPHONY. HE REQUESTED TO HEAR THIS SYMPHONY JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH...