Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY NIGHT held promise. Two tickets to a Benny Goodman concert awaited me at Symphony Hall, and there were two of us to share them. We were both dressed with style--we were after weekend magic, looking to soar out of the grey world of dormitories and dining halls...
...overture to Mikhail Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla is one of the most overworked pops-concert favorites. It is also one of the best-taut, joyously melodic, brilliantly orchestrated. Thanks to the inquisitive Sarah Caldwell, we now know what follows the overture-an equally delightful opera. With Caldwell on the podium and in charge of stagecraft, the Opera Company of Boston opened its 19th season last week with the first known staging in the U.S. of this Russian classic...
...sensitivity with which the orchestra performed Benjamin Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes carried through most of the concert. The suite, in three parts, was delivered in all its interesting orchestration, especially in the dialogues between the timpani and the winds, and in the passages in which the strings play while the remaining players are silent...
...Santana too, and a normal reviewer would call this a Big Concert, but I just say, "At the Garden, last night, and you missed...
...seems to be deathless. He is 67 years old and will play at Symphony Hall in Boston tomorrow night at 8:30. Tickets are $6, $8, and $10 at the door. He will play with his jazz sextet, who will play without him for the first half of the concert. Benny comes in for the last hour or so. Mayor White has declared tomorrow Benny Goodman Day in Boston, and the old music master will get a key to the city in private ceremonies after the performance...