Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost lost to sight in the worldwide building boom of new factories, apartment houses and skyscrapers are the new concert halls and opera houses going up to keep pace with the ever-growing music audience. In the U.S., Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full...
...Berlin's $1,750,000 Concert Hall, authorized this month after seven years of debate, will give Berlin's famed Philharmonic Orchestra a new home in an irregularly shaped, eight-sided structure that will place the musicians in the center, group listeners around them in a full circle. To spread the music equally in all directions, a concave sound reflector will be hung over the orchestra. Architect Hans Scharoun, 63, took his cue from watching music lovers clustering around improvising musicians, concluded: "The natural location of music, spatially and optically, is in the center of a music hall...
Died. Josef Casimir Hofmann, 81, Polish-born master pianist, who gave his first public performance at five, made his American debut at eleven in 1887 (he played brilliantly, but his So-concert tour was halted after 42 performances by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children), later became one of the world's most highly praised and best-paid artists; in Los Angeles. A protégé of Composer Anton Rubinstein, he developed brilliant technique (though his hands were so stubby that he required a specially shortened keyboard), retired several years after his triumphant golden-jubilee concert...
...euphoria that often the great migration of prisoners seems as jolly as a Sunday in the park. The heady excitement of survival made it easy to put the dreadful past out of mind and heart. Nearing home. Henriette says: "I feel like one of those violinists at a concert who gets called back for an encore. I was so convinced that I was going to die and that the concert was over, but apparently life wants an encore. I just realized that tonight...
...fifth annual Symphony Hall concert on March 30 will open the spring vacation tour, according to Kenneth Lang '58, band manager. This year, for the first time, the band will perform for a Red Sox opening game, against the Yankees on April 18, at the invitation of Thomas Yawkey, president of the Red Sox and a former Yale baseball player...