Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Times have changed since concerts ran four or five hours in length. Today, an hour and a half of live creativity is all the average listener is expected to digest as one time. Two hours is considered long. Two and a half is considered an interesting experiment in the ability of performers and listeners to keep up the kind of concentration needed to hear good music. The effort was great but the results were worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert...
...energy being channelled into it. Had the Symphony of Psalms been performed first on the program, it is probable that the extreme delicacy of it would have been greatly marred. As it was, the sort of dying breath timbre at the end provided an almost overwhelming end to the concert...
...played it so beautifully at Aspen was 38-year-old Jacob Lateiner, whom most professionals would call "a musician's musician," which is another way of saying that he lacks the glamour and glitter so dazzling to most nonprofessionals among concert audiences. The pros, on the other hand, call him one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven since Artur Schnabel. "The remarkable quality about Lateiner's playing," says Composer Elliott Carter, "is his depth of understanding." It is an understanding that Lateiner has distilled from scholarly scrutiny of the original manuscripts of the music he plays. A collector...
...develop pianistically the way I felt I wanted to." Instead, almost in spite of himself, he appeared as a soloist with the Boston and NBC symphonies, astonished the New York critics with a masterly debut recital at Carnegie Hall, made a few recordings for Columbia, and embarked on a concert career...
...calling, and so Streisand is quitting the stage temporarily. The baby that she refers to as "Kid" is due in December, after which she will report to Hollywood to begin filming Funny Girl. But before taking her maternity leave, Barbra had to say goodbye to her worshipers with a concert tour of stadiums in Newport, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago...