Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they never do. In fact, when the house lights go down on a concert today, it is often the audience that strikes up the overture. It is a kind of barnyard symphonette. The Hummer and the Time Beater serve as the rhythm section; the Cellophane Crinkler and the Program Rattler handle the solos. In the percussion section, the principal performers are the Bracelet Jangler and the Premature Clapper, while special effects are contributed by the Knuckle Cracker and the Watch Wind er. The Coughers' Chorale is directed by the Dry-Throated, Red-Nosed Hacker, whose feeblest lead always gets...
Shattered Mood. Lumped together, they are the Intruders, the most ill-mannered group ever to plague U.S. concert halls and opera houses-and they seem to be more prevalent today than ever before. One theory is that they are the illegitimate offspring of the cultural explosion. Another is that audiences are exposed to so much classical music today that they have grown calluses on their manners. Whatever the cause, the intruders are multiplying, and nothing short of muzzles and straitjackets seems likely to deter them. In general, Manhattan audiences are the least respectful, Chicago's the most punctual, Philadelphia...
...worst intruders are the latecomers. Most concert halls today refuse to seat late arrivals until there is a logical break in the music. In Manhattan, as much as 15% of an audience, elbows at the ready, will come clomping down the aisle between movements of a symphony. Complains one critic: "A listener's mood is broken-no, shattered -when he is removed from the tonal world that has just been established. And just because some inconsiderate couple felt like dawdling over their coffee." To teach latecomers a lesson, Stokowski once had his musicians wander idly off-and onstage while...
...BEGINNING, GOD" (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A concert of sacred music taped on Christmas Day at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church by Duke Ellington, his orchestra and four choirs...
...committee has already selected an act for the concert, but will not announce the name yet. It is one of six listed in a poll of the class last week. The possible groups are Dave Brubeck, Jay and the Americans, Dick Gregory and Dizzy Gillespie, the Animals, the Kingsmen, and Stan Getz and the Womenfolk...