Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston concert scene is about closed up for the summer, after the July appearances of the Jefferson Starship and Jethro Tull within seven days of each other, but the Cambridge-Boston club scene is alive and kicking, and some local bands are scheduled that are definitely worth checking...
...principal job is to ready her chorus for other maestros. She founded her group 19 years ago at Fritz Reiner's invitation. Today the Hillis sound-vibrant, precise, enormous-has become an indispensable element of the famed Solti sound, notably at events like Sir Georg's luminous concert version of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Says Solti: "Working with her and that chorus is one of the major joys of my life...
When Levine finished the concert at Ravinia, the biggest ovation was for Hillis' chorus, and Levine ushered her onstage. Said he later: "I adore that chorus." In Chicago they also adore the woman who built...
...people are mistaken when they say that if Hurok disappears his organization will fall apart," he would say. "It'll go on, as long as they have the artists." Last week -two years after Hurok died at the age of 85-the current management of Hurok Concerts conceded that almost three dozen of its biggest box office draws had quit. The stampede out of Hurok began one of the biggest shake-ups in the concert business. Items...
...make Serena an appropriately righteous foil to Bess. Larry Marshall's Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran contralto Carol Brice, a regular on the concert scene since the 1940s, in the minor role of a neighborhood scold named Maria...