Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirited performance of Vivaldi's Gloria was the major attraction in a service of church music presented by the Harvard Freshman Glee Club and Radcliffe Freshman Chorus at Memorial Church last night. The concert was short, but solid, achieving no remarkable heights, but maintaining a satisfying level of musicianship...
...loveliest portions of the concert were supplied by the two soloists, Victoria Spurgeon and Edith Gould. Both of them have beautiful voices which they used intelligently to produce some remarkably emotional singing...
When a full-time physician gives a violin concert, it's news. When he turns out to be a player of real stature, it's news indeed. This is precisely what happened yesterday afternoon at Paine Hall, where the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club presented the father-and-son team of violinist Jerome Gross, eminent Cleveland surgeon, and pianist David Gross, a Lowell House sophomore...
...whole concert was just what the doctor ordered. And it is little short of scandal that so few people turned...
...Examples: how to pass rapidly from one drum, fortissimo, to another, without the resonance of the first canceling out the pitch of the second (part of the solution was to use a medium-padded drumstick); how to allow the tympanist enough time between solo passages for retuning (the hot concert-hall lights tend to raise drum pitch, while the audience's body moisture in the air lowers...