Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall in the Museum seems to be a little too resonant for this type of concert, so the concerts are being transferred to the larger Paine Hall...
...Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked out the vestry door into the balmy night, the waiting crowd broke into an ovation that echoed through the narrow streets. "Absolutely...
...eleven-year-old son scampering for an engineer when he found a dead spot. Lennie and the boys weren't the only ones willing to sweat for their music. The audience started arriving to stake out the best spots at 9 a.m. on the day of the concert, first in New York City's free park-concert series, and by dusk something like 90,000 people had spread blankets and set up camp chairs around the park's Sheep Meadow. It was possibly the biggest crowd ever to attend a symphony concert, and it listened enraptured...
...Guarneri String Quartet's performance of the work at Sanders Theater, in the fourth concert of its series here, was of virtuoso caliber. The most significant aspect of this performance was that the second movement, un poco adagio, posed no problems of continuity to the listener. Throughout, the Quartet played with freedom and sensitivity, and brought out fully the singing qualities of the music...
...short, the overall success of the concert was beyond a doubt, the only problems being those built-in flaws in the music...