Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be the sign of a dawning epoch when Cambridge choruses abandon the booming solemnity of Latin and devote half a concert to music by twentieth century Americans, with daring words in the vernacular. Now it is always a riot when English is substituted for Latin in Cambridge, and Friday's Glee Club-Choral Society concert proved to be no exception. The concert put the glee back in the Glee Club and brought jolly laughter from the listeners...
...concert also featured the first East Coast performance of a cantata written last year by Randall Thompson, for mixed voiced, brass choir and harp. The second of the piece's three parts was pleasant; a lovely, smooth harp passage was answered softly by a muted trumpet and by the voices. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon," the voices sang...
...record number of 4,908 applications, Princeton University last week accepted only 1,165. Among the outstanding students who got in was Joseph David Oznot, son of a wealthy private detective from East Lansing, Mich. Oznot had been first in his class, a concert pianist, on the varsity lacrosse team. Even though he worked summers as a clerk, he found time to study calculus and Virgil. Director of Admissions E. Alden Dunham was looking forward to meeting the unusually gifted student, but last week he got word that he couldn't. Reason: Oznot (rhymes with...
...Rubinstein, the most satisfying aspect of his career is the constant opportunity for growth in his art. ("I cannot play something that is not always new to me.") In pursuit of variety, he will even try out new fingerings "that suddenly occur to me" in the midst of a concert. "It is dangerous, I admit," he says, "but that is the way music develops." Yet his playing is still notable for its certainty, its easy muscularity and sense of inevitability. In last week's tour d'art, Rubinstein lent exhilaration and romance to the weighty grandeur of Brahms...
...year. The London Symphony, the London Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony are sound, if occasionally lackluster; and all five can depend on a corps of musicians willing to play for incomes that average only $4,500 a year. All have plenty of work: by the end of the concert season next month, Festival Hall will have held 190 orchestral concerts in nine months, leading the orchestras to wonder if they aren't suffering from a surfeit of their own music making...