Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the concert on the Widener steps scheduled for last night was rained out, a Glee Club spokesman announced that yesterday's program would be performed next Tuesday. The program scheduled for next Tuesday will be postponed indefinitely...
...nine singers were gathered in the rehearsal studio (each one had brought a score and paid 50? for the studio's weekly rental). "Straight through, and this time it will be very good," said Conductor Allers, and then he pounded out the famous score on a battered concert grand. Sight-reading their roles, the singers followed him with voices that were strong, skilled and supple. Allers lifted an occasional finger to cue a singer, threw out an occasional comment ("We all know we can sing very loud; now let's see if we can put it together...
...Ukraine to his arrival in the U.S. in 1929. A high point of the reminiscences comes with the time Piatigorsky was a homeless young refugee in Berlin and often had to sleep on park benches; once, seeking dry shelter for the night, he slipped into an empty concert hall and out of his rain-drenched clothes, but found himself unable to sleep and spent the time till morning playing his cello nude on the stage. He has also written a novel that sounds farcical echoes of Kafka. The manuscript, which Piatigorsky used to carry about with him in his cello...
...would be hard to imagine a better program than the one played by the Bach Society Orchestra Sunday night. Consisting of Bach and Mozart, with excellent soloists, the concert played to a packed house; the audience was obviously prepared to enjoy itself, and it was not disappointed...
...Bach, the recitative was not merely an easy way to eat up text and set the key for the next aria, but an integral part of the musical fabric. The founder of the Orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, was on hand for the concert, and he must have been pleased to hear it giving fine performances of such great music...