Word: concerting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Music Mountain, a small but superior concert series by the Berkshire String Quartet in a white frame concert hall outside Falls Village, Conn...
...left hand kneading a softly glowing tone from the strings. In Copland's Quiet City, he moved with the sure, deft strokes of a tailor stitching a hem, weaving the complex patterns into a taut whole. The interpretations, typically, were masterpieces of lucidity and logic, and at concert's end the audience at Stanford University awarded a resounding ovation to Geneva's Ernest Ansermet and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande...
...performance was part of a ten-concert series by the orchestra at Stanford. Though the Suisse Romande is well known to American audiences from its recordings, this was the orchestra's first visit to the U.S. As debuts go, it was a grueling test. Ansermet (pronounced ahn-ser-may) led his 115-member ensemble through a symphonic obstacle course, accepting the challenge of some of the thorniest works of Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev and Berg. As if that were not enough, Ansermet then jetted to Manhattan to conduct five equally demanding works with the New York Philharmonic last week...
...certainly does. The first-class passenger is deluged with free cocktails, champagne and steak-filet meals, offered a concert on earphones as well as movies. The stewardesses even wake people up to give them eyeshades for sounder sleeping. To woo frequent business travelers, American has a club for businessmen's secretaries, buys them dinners and takes them to the movies. Eastern sends secretaries flowers and seed packets...
Duke Ellington and his orchestra will appear at the Union Methodist Church in Boston at 3:15 p.m. tonight to present a "sacred concert...