Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winds Op. 103, Gounod's "Petite Symphonie" and a Mozart Serenade. Show up at the door at 7:30 to get a seat. For more info, call 353-3355. The Busch-Reisinger Thursday Noon Recital Series features the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble this afternoon. Another free event is a concert at the Somerville Public Library, Highland Ave. and Walnut St., this Sunday at 3 p.m. Selections include soprano, flute and harp works--Handel, Britten and everything in between...
...roster of Negro Princeton... Hard-working people, and poor, most of them, in worldly goods--but how rich in compassion! How filled with the goodness of humanity and the spiritual steel forged by centuries of oppression!... Here in this little hemmed-in world where home must be theatre and concert hall and social center, there was a warmth of song. Songs of love and longing, songs of trials and triumphs, deep-flowing rivers and rollicking brooks, hymn-songs and ragtime ballads, gospels and blues, and the healing comfort to be found in the illimitable sorrow of the spirituals. --Paul Robeson...
This passage, taken from Paul Robeson's 1958 autobiography, goes a long way toward explaining what drove and inspired this richly talented, complex man. He is now remembered by many as a sort of martyr-hero, this one-time darling of the pre-War theater and concert world who spurned wealth and acclaim abroad to return home in the early 1940s and take up the grueling, uphill fight for racial equality and justice in his native America. But here, at 60, Robeson is thinking back to his childhood; to what it was to grow up in lily-white, aristocratic Princeton...
Composer Aron Copland and pianist Leo Smit will discuss the music they will play in concert on Wednesday night at a "Learning from Performers" lecture in the Kirkland Junior Common Room at 4 p.m. The lecture is free, but tickets are required and can be obtained at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office starting today...
Paul Schllesman and Paul White--Dunster Library at 5:30 Bach Society Orchestra--Sanders Theatre at 8:30 Sherry Concert--Chamber Music at Mather House at 4:15 Charles Krigbaum--organ recital in Memorial Church at 8:30 "La Serva Padrona" and "Savitri...