Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles' splendid new Music Center, 1,500 members of the Retail Clerks Union sat in red-plush comfort beneath crystal chandeliers. Before getting down to the business of a union meeting, they heard a concert climaxed by a specialized composition called The Shopping Center Blues. They chuckled appreciatively when Local Leader Joe Silva explained that his hoarseness was caused by "executive flu " De Silva noted that a minority of the Music Center's board had protested that a union meeting was not the sort of "cultural" activity for which the $32.2 million center (including $25,000 contributed...
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (Everest) provides an opportunity for piano lovers to hear and compare the styles of several virtuosos-Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff-in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major...
...captain, once by a Buddhist priest-to longtime Traveling Companion Mark Herron. Then she said no, she hadn't at all, when it turned out that her marriage to Hollywood Producer Sid Luft had not been dissolved. The Dissolution came in May, and as she opened a concert series last week at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, Calif., Judy quavered to the audience: "I'm going to marry my beloved Mark on the 19th of September." The bridegroom pronounced himself "stunned, thrilled and overwhelmed...
Arriving at Sydney airport for her first concert in her native city in 14 years, she was distressed to see that photographers were waiting. Commanded the coloratura: "Get those people away from here." Her husband-manager, Richard Bonynge, followed with a back handed swing at a photographer's camera and smashed the flashbulb...
...receive her guests, or that she kept a pride of pet lions in her basement. But it is true that she paraded in elegant furs walking a lion on a leash, did Lenten penance by scrubbing the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum that contains some of the world's finest paintings. She spent a lifetime inventing...