Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonard Strauss, an Indianapolis incinerator manufacturer who grew bored playing his violin in his hotel room while on business trips. Today the A.C.M.P. publishes a directory that lists 6,000 amateur musicians in 50 states and 61 countries. By consulting the directory, a member can arrange a living-room concert in virtually any city in the world...
With fanfares from silver trumpets, the 1965 Nobel Prize winners stepped forward to accept the awards from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf in Stockholm's Concert Hall. Gathering afterward to compare their $56,400 notes were Harvard University's Dr. Robert Burns Woodward, 48, with the prize for chemistry; Harvard's Dr. Julian Schwinger, 47, and Dr. Richard P. Feynman, 47, of the California Institute of Technology, who share the physics prize with Tokyo's Dr. Shin-ichiro Tomonaga, 59; Francois Jacob, 45, Andre Lwoff, 63, and Jacques Monod, 55, sharing the prize...
When Marjorie died six days after Peter's birth, it was the Harrimans who took care of the baby while the disconsolate Eddy went on extended concert tours and served a four-year hitch in the Navy. Eventually, though they never legally adopted him, the Harrimans became Peter's foster parents...
...just as interested in a flat painting," says Segal, "as in a dance concert." He wants to jump from medium to medium in an attempt to dissolve the boundaries between reality and dreams. "Have you ever been to a subway station?" he asks. "It is a totally man-made world of pure fantasy." For his Costume Party, the theme "left me free to range from contemporary experience to Greco-Roman metamorphosis of man to beast. It's illustrative of the many faces between man and woman in the nature of reality...
...chief defect of the concert was the atrocious choice of music. (I know some habitual concertgoers who decided to skip this one when they saw the program.) Three of the four selections were late nineteenth century romantic, and the fourth--though written later--was largely in that style. Now it is good to have some sensationalism from the Romantic period, but all of the world's music was not written after 1850. At Christmas time, when there is so much really great and profound music from the baroque period that is especially appropriate, it is criminal that the whole program...