Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music-making of high quality characterized the concert of chamber music presented last Thursday evening before a capacity audience in Paine Hall, under the combined sponsorship of the Harvard and M.I.T. Summer Schools...
...four demonstrated considerable instrumental versatility. Mr. Brown, a virtuoso of long standing on the modern flute, also played several kinds of recorder. Mr. Fuller, a concert organist, here showed his skill on a rich-toned harpsichord built in 1955 by the local firm of Hubbard and Dowd. Miss Davidoff played both the 'cello and its quite different predecessor, the viola da gamba. Mr. Senturia, a first-rate oboist, also played on several sizes of recorder; and, in three pieces, he provided the chief novelty of the evening by performing on a krummhorn--a long obsolete, J-shaped woodwind with...
...salute, modestly named for reporters the U.S.'s best poet ("Ezra Pound"), said of his homeland: "All America is an insane asylum." With snatches of Water Boy, Basso Paul Robeson, 60, a well-heeled Marxist, flapped his brand-new passport aloft as he arrived in London for a concert tour. Question from newsmen: Is Paul in the Party? "I have a right to be a member of any party," said he obscurely. Well, would he like to say anything about Soviet antiSemitism? Boomed Robeson: "I will not discuss these questions today...
...pounds since his illness. Walks every morning-three kilometers-and rests in the afternoon." Recovered from a heart attack in Puerto Rico (TIME, April 29, 1957), Cellist Casals was back in the town of Prades (pop. 5,000) on the edge of the French Pyrenees, where he resumed his concert career eight years ago as an exile from Franco's Spain. From all over Western Europe musicians and disciples poured into town to play for and honor the rotund little man with the shiny bald head who is the hero of music's most lovingly cultivated modern legend...
Buses will depart on Friday at 1 p.m. and return after the Sunday afternoon concert...