Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Concert band has never been anyone's favorite musical medium. Composers shun it, music majors sneer at it, and conductors aspire to higher things. Plagued by a limited repertoire and a not-too-sophisticated audience, bands are usually reduced to playing Sousa marches and arrangements of the prelude to the second act of Lohengrin...
...shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts-for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything we are and everything that we have...
...chamber piece for clarinet, saxophones and rhythm, and a film score. Last week he recorded his new background music for a play, The Jaywalker, which will be performed at Coventry Cathedral in June. At the high school auditorium in Montclair, N.J., last week, Ellington and his band played his concert of sacred music, composed 18 months ago to demonstrate the Duke's belief that "every man prays in his own language." This week the Ellington troupe is off on a 30-city tour to play his latest showcases for his sidemen...
...pulsating "Elman tone," far richer than the restrained vibrato and small tone then in vogue, took the music world by storm (to a fan who once gushed that he played like a god, Elman replied, "A god doesn't improve; I do") and launched a marathon, 5,014-concert career that continued until his death; of a heart attack; in New York...
...which he was co-owner. He followed this with a protest poster against the war in Viet Nam. Both were great hits with the local hippies ("They blew their minds," Wilson recalls), and soon he was being commissioned by rock-'n'-roll bands to do dance-concert posters. The first one, for "The Jefferson Airplane" and "Big Brother and the Holding Company" concert at Fillmore, was printed in 300 copies. As fast as they went up on telephone poles, they were taken down as collector's items. An original today brings...