Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comments on the HRO concert must start with a paean to the program. Professional orchestras seldom pass the two hour mark these days, leaving the listener with a vaguely unsatisfied feeling. And at least one of the selections on the program is usually a chestnut that every member of the orchestra could play standing on his head. Both for the length and content the HRO program was a delight...
...Ives, the dancers move through four stages of life against a background of giant flats of pop art-IBM cards, an ice-cream cone, green stamps, comic-strip characters. By contrast, Lucifer is classical ballet, eschewing pantomime and narrative for a more abstract visualization of Hindemith's austere Concert Music for Strings and Brass. After the angels assemble for "a typical day in heaven," Lucifer appears, defiant and strutting, and engages in graceful combat with Archangel Michael, only to be felled by a brilliant ray of white light from above...
...order at two of Manhattan's six dailies (the Times and the Post). Management is equally concerned, and has offered to neutralize the threat by attrition: to let only death, retirement and resignation, and not the machines, winnow the present population of the composing room. This concert of minds speaks much more loudly than the niggling differences involved...
...Successor. During a concert in Birmingham in 1956, five white men leaped onto the stage and knocked him down. Cole was unhurt. That is, until later, when the Negro press scalded him "for kneeling before the throne of Jim Crow" by playing before a segregated audience. In Harlem, some juke joints ceremoniously smashed his records. "I'm an entertainer," he answered, "not a politician. I'm crusading in my own way. I feel I can help ease the tension by gaining the respect of both races all over the country...
...Most of the money will come from private foundations and friends and alumni of the HRO. The orchestra also plans to apply to the State Department for part of its budget. Present negotiations indicate that the South American governments will hanas well as transportation within each die housing and concert arrangements, country...