Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lowell House Music Society presents a free concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Chopin. David Commanday Conducts. Pianists are Tanya Bartevyan and Andrew Bonner...
...sould like a lot of hype, but the benign neglect of the arts in this day and age warrents such commercialization. Reliance on ticket sales and unspecified patron donations all too often has forced the country's symphony orchestras to cut-down on concert schedules, to cut-down the players' salaries, and to program concerts to appeal to a wide audience, thereby foregoing the lesser-known though equally deserving works. The Boston Symphony is fortunate in having the satellite Boston Pops (which is composed primarily of Symphony players) to gross a huge annual sum. Through record sales (Arthur Fiedler...
Died. Bruce Hungerford, 54, Australian-born concert pianist and Egyptologist; in an auto accident; just after giving a slide lecture on Egypt at Rockefeller University in New York City. When he was pianist in residence at the Bayreuth Festival master classes, Hungerford recorded all the piano music of Richard Wagner. More recently he was acclaimed for his powerful, deeply sensitive interpretations of Beethoven, both in concert and on records...
Zarem's inspiration goes back to his childhood in Georgia. Says he: "My life was the movies. I used to walk around Savannah and fantasize that it was Beverly Hills." He studied political science at Yale and started his career in New York as a concert booking agent. Eventually he signed on with Rogers & Cowan, the show-business p.r. firm, spending six years boosting such entertainers as Ann-Margret, Dustin Hoffman and Dyan Cannon. "I wanted to be an actor," he confesses. "But I just never thought of myself as being attractive...
...Elton John. The "Artist of the Year," according to a poll of 6,000 Rolling Stone readers, is Peter Frampton, 26. No wonder. His latest album, Frampton Comes Alive!, has sold 10 million copies, and 2 million fans this year have seen and heard the gyrating rock singer in concert Frampton's modest explanation of his success: "I do what Jolson, Sinatra, Tony Bennett and the Beatles did-what all the greats do. I communicate." Frampton has signed to make a movie in which he will play a rock star who sings the Beatles' songs. The film...