Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Longy School hosts a half-dozen interesting concerts over the next three weeks. The Longy Wind Ensemble, conducted by Basil Chapman, plays works by Mozart and Beethoven on Friday, January 13. The School is located at 1 Follen St., near Radcliffe Quad. Call 876-0956 for details. Among the other Longy concerts is a Special Faculty Concert on Monday, January 16, featuring sonatas of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. "Music for Viennese Fortepiano," on Friday, January 20, includes Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 281 and Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor Op. 27, no. 2. In a more modern vein...
...Valley, the penitentiary housing 2,400 inmates is a cauldron of latent racial violence. In its 26-year history, 18 inmates have slaughtered one another in the name of black or white supremacy. Last week, as part of a continual effort to promote racial harmony, prison authorities held a concert by Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch, a black. TIME Correspondent James Wilde attended. His report...
...evening concert in the gymnasium of the prison's medium-security cell-block unit was a soothing antidote for Soledad's pervasive atmosphere of violence and tension. One section of the prison unit was still locked up after the near-fatal stabbing of a white inmate on Christmas Day. Several days before the concert, 18 men were confined to the maximum-control unit of the penitentiary for insubordination. When Crouch arrived at Soledad with his multiracial band (four whites, five blacks), the chaplain cautioned them uneasily: "In the event of any disturbance, obey the instructions of the custodial...
...When the concert was over, few of the prisoners wanted to leave. Said Louie Mareno, a Chicano: "I've been in jail a long time, but I've never seen a group react to anyone like this." Said Captain Buzz Brewer of the Salvation Army: "I've never seen anything like this in the eleven years I've been working in prisons." A white convict named Forrest summed up the scene: "When you can get all these races together acting as a whole, that's good. It was a miracle considering all the tensions here...
...Citicorp it is possible to leave work and, without stepping outside the Center, shop for a book or a new pipe, pick up a bag of custom-blended coffee, cash a check, raise a glass of wine and down a fondue, exchange smiles, go to a play, hear a concert-or even kneel in prayer...