Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MYSTERY why the Harvard Concert Band sometimes attracts as relatively few listeners as it does, especially in light of its serious and effective performance last Friday night in Paine Hall...
Under conductor Thomas G. Everett, the Concert Band launched into Giovanni Gabrieli's brief Canzon septimi toni No. 2 (1597) for brass ensemble. Gabrieli designed the work as open-air music for Venice's Piazzi San Marco. The canzon is a work which really has a vocal-fugal style but is played instrumentally. From this standpoint the concert band evoked the antiphonal character of the piece effectively, with strong modulations and an acute sense of tone color...
...concert band's finest showing of the evening came in its execution of the Symphony No. 6 for Band, Opus 86 by Vincent Persichetti. A six-minute commission turned into a four-movement symphony and the work was handled by the group with all the full-bodied color and ensemble of a regular orchestra...
...What! As conductors go-and they do go: into their 70s, 80s, even 90s -Karajan at 68 is a comparative youngster. But following serious surgery for a slipped disc last year, his four-day concert of masterpieces seemed all the more remarkable. He takes no medicine and still experiences pain. In an infrequent interview, with TIME Music Critic William Bender, he dispatched the subject of pain fast: "So what! I had a long time to think during seven weeks in the hospital. Now everything is such a joy, the bread I eat, every step. It's a new life...
...burgeoning one-man empire, pulling in a reported $2 million a year. He is constantly in recording studios; next year his third complete recording of Beethoven's symphonies will be released. Then there are the hours spent in film labs working on prints or video tapes of his concert and operatic productions. When he is not filming operas, he is conducting them at the Salzburg Easter Music Festival...