Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laughed loud and long when I read about unruly audiences [Jan. 21]. But there is one sound left unmentioned-that of a nursing baby. I listened to that through a Rubinstein concert. First the baby chewed on a rubber pacifier-that has a kind of squeak. Then there was a new sound and so help me, the mother was nursing her baby. Rubinstein looked right over the keyboard at us, and played sublimely on-possibly because he had become a father not too many years before...
...presidents puts it, is "not action-oriented." Many of these men are committed to the defensible proposition that their duty lies almost solely with administering their own schools. But about a third of them assume more off-campus commitments, believe more deeply that universities must contribute in concert, as well as individually, to U.S. goals and progress. They tend, by their energy and conviction, to nominate themselves-which often means coming to the attention of such committee pickers as HEW Secretary John Gardner or his chief education assistant, Francis Keppel. The current inner group is pictured and described on these...
...broken occasionally by a buzz from the switchboard behind a high counter, followed by the receptionist's greeting, "WBZ, Group W." Instead of patients, middle-aged promotion men holding bundles of paper-jacketed 15's sit talking of the publicity job for an Al Hirt concert and about bringing the Four Seasons to Boston for the March of Dimes...
When he returned to the concert stage 18 years later, Alkan inexplicably refused to play any of his important works. So did his illegitimate son, Elie Miriam Delaborde, himself a distinguished pianist, who inherited his father's idiosyncrasies: he roomed with two apes and traveled with 121 cockatoos...
Decisive End. "If Alkan had to perform his works in public, I'm sure he would have been kinder to himself," says Lewenthal, whose impulsive, steel-wristed style of playing is just right for Alkan. For him the concert stage is an arena, his mission "to slay the black dragon with the 88 gleaming teeth." To create the "proper atmosphere," he has the lights dimmed until he is little more than a silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful...