Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thus, U.S. symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce his best. Says Concert Violinist Henryk Szeryng: "I always find that my best accompaniments in the U.S. are in February and March, the time when contracts come up for renewal...
...Though performing-arts centers are shooting up as fast as prefab bungalows, many orchestras must play under less than ideal conditions. The New Orleans Philharmonic, which performs in the Municipal Auditorium, often has to compete with the roars from a wrestling match on the other side of the wall; concerts in St. Louis' Kiel auditorium are punctuated with cheers at Hawks basketball games. In the mobile musicians' market, it is almost axiomatic that the best orchestras are those with the biggest budgets. Facing up to the demands of the modern orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony hired a young concert...
...second Streisand special, which deliberately duplicates the successful format of the first. This time Streisand dances through a fantasy in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, swapping places with the paintings; she also clowns around a circus, doing a dance with some penguins, and winds up with a concert...
Housing for the members of the tour will be provided by local sponsors in each country. Most of the students will live in homes or with other students. In return for this, there will be no concert fees...
...Harvard Glee Club will present a concert tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Tickets for the concert may be obtained at Holden Chapel or the Coop...