Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Better coordinated and disciplined than in some of its previous concerts, the HRC played with feeling, alternating between restraint and considerable power. Conductor James Yannatos brought out the talent in the HRO, combining the roles of the individual instruments with the orchestra as a whole. The dreamy forest of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the lightness of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Bohemian flavor of Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G were all pleasing to the ear and mind. The technical performance of the musicians--particularly Roy Kogan's solo...
Yannatos and the orchestra appeared best in Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, the last work of the concert. The Eighth Symphony is in many respects the equal of Dvorak's more celebrated New World Symphony, which he wrote later. It suggests the many faces of Czech culture as Dvorak saw them--pastoral joy, Bohemian calm, and general happiness--all of which are captured in the work. The orchestra handled the transitions between these moods well, and the piece had more coherence and unity than the Debussy or Saint-Saens. In the first movement, the powerful horns and cellos, the cheerful forte...
Your daughter, your friend's daughter, and several million others. Girls-pre-teen, just-teen and a few lustfully maternal moms-have made Shaun Cassidy, 19, into a top-selling recording artist, a high-wattage TV personality, and the kind of turn-away concert star who can provoke riotous rites of weepy nubility every time he bats his well-turned lashes. Admits Shaun gamely: "Yes, it's a dirty job. But someone...
Shaun pulled down a cool million last year-including hefty licensing fees to reproduce his milk-fed good looks on everything from wristwatches to pajamas. He works for it, though, spending long days churning out a new episode of The Hardy Boys, weekends on concert tours and the remaining free time writing songs or laying down vocals...
...whom Cassidy declares himself devoted), but lyrics like "Now you know I'm really glad/ I listened to my Mom and Dad" will go far to assuage parental anxiety. Nothing about Shaun is calculated to intimidate or offend. As Joe Hardy, boy sleuth, he is absolutely hygienic. In concert, he adorns himself in requisite skin-tights and shakes his tail at the yearning throngs, but the distinct outline of his briefs pressing through the clinging fabric is disarming and reassuringly boyish, like a kid who has got all the moves down but not quite mastered the fine points...