Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson marked the end of his 100th day in office last week in a most uncharacteristic way. He was sitting still, listening to a concert given by the visiting Houston Symphony Orchestra in Washington. But the rest of the week was more like...
...Germans his highest blessing: "These cats are with it!" The Swedes were even more hip; Monk played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra singing Night and Day, and Swedish television broadcast the whole concert live. Such European enthusiasm for a breed of cat many Americans still consider weird, if not downright wicked, may seem something of a puzzle. But to jazzmen touring Europe, it is one more proof that the limits of the art at home are more sociological than esthetic...
Monk's speculations were greatly encouraged in December, when he crowned all his recent achievements with a significant trip uptown from the Five Spot to Philharmonic Hall. There he presided over a concert by a special ten-piece ensemble and his own quartet...
...music was mainly Monk's own? nine compositions from the early / Mean You to Oska T., which he wrote last summer under a title that is his own transcription of an Englishman's saying "Ask for T." ("And the T," says Thelonious, "is me.") The concert was the most successful jazz event of the season, and Monk greeted his triumph with grace and style. At the piano he turned to like a blacksmith at a cranky forge? foot flapping madly, a moan of exertion fleeing his lips. The music he made suggested that the better he is received...
...staging a concert reading of Tamburlaine, Seltzer robbed himself of the visual splendor and seemed to sentence his audiences to a few hours of exposure to almost constant shouting. But heavy cutting of Marlowe's lines, some clever technical effects, and a splendid reading by David Stone as Tamburlaine almost make this production first-rate theatre...