Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation from Brandeis University last summer to write one of six jazz compositions for the annual Brandeis arts festival. Also represented: Composers Harold Shapero and Gunther Schuller, Jazzmen Charlie Mingus, Jimmy Giuffre and George Russell. Their efforts are now presented by Columbia on an album entitled Modern Jazz Concert. The selections range from Russell's blues-favored All About Rosie, "on a motif taken from an Alabama Negro children's song game," to Babbitt's lurching, jaggedly profiled twelve-tone piece...
Jean Lunn, soprano, will appear in a concert of chamber music of Paul Hindemith to be given Monday evening, August 4, at 8:30 p.m., in Paine Hall. The concert, open to the public without charge, will also include Eleftherios Eleftherakis and Joseph Pietropaolo, violists; Michael Senturia '58, oboist; Mary F. Johnson and Judith Davidoff, cellists, and Norma Bertolami Sapp, pianist...
...Summer School Chorus will give its annual free public concert on Aug. 14, at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The 150-voice group under the direction of Harold C. Schmidt, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music at Stanford, is the largest aggregation in the Chorus's history...
...also been preparing an hour-long educational television film, to be directed by WGBH and distributed throughout the nation by the Educational Television Center of Ann Arbor, Mich. The purpose of the film is to demonstrate the training of a chorus from the beginning rehearsals to the final concert. Two-thirds of the project has already been filmed in rehearsals. The last third of the film will be taken from the live television performance of the concert...
...first, into the mild eccentricity of barking and screaming like a normal conductor. This whim had so worsened that now, night after night, Civil Servant George "conducted" whole orchestras on his phonograph, laid grandiose plans for philharmonic "festivals," hired and fired entire woodwind sections. He also attended every major concert in the ungenerous hope that the conductor would drop dead and he, George Conway, could snatch the baton from the dying hand...