Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berman is a virtuoso whose blinding technique appears an easy rival to that of Vladimir Horowitz. Yet Berman's is a humble kind of virtuosity that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves...
Brenda Way--like most of the collective, both choreographer and dancer--is able to diagram neatly her dances based on "various mathematical systems." Displayed at the concert, her instructions for one dance read something as follows: dancer A does event #1 in a specified time interval; dancer B repeats event #1, adds event #2 and executes the sequence #1 & #2 in the same specified time interval; dancer performs events #1 & #2 & #3 in the same specified...and so on. An entire issue of The Drama Review recently was devoted to similar schemata, labeled "post-modern dance" by the editor...
...potential benefits of financial and academic support for the HRO are great. The satisfaction of students would be greatly enhanced by a strong undergraduate orchestra. Yearly tours would provide some outstanding performance experiences and serve to draw more musicians to Harvard. Free concerts would virtually guarantee a full concert hall and open new programming possibilities. Credit for orchestral performance would satisfy the needs of a much broader segment of the undergraduate population...
...Johannesburg columnist - "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the TV age." More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the five-hour nightly programs, broadcast in both English and Afrikaans. They included Shane, the Bob Newhart Show, news broadcasts, a concert by the Orchestre de Paris and the film oldie Oklahoma...
From Cabinet officer to clerk, some 2,700 people filled all the seats in the vast Kennedy Center Concert Hall for a sing-in of Handel's Messiah. The event is regarded as the ultimate offspring of a city that runs on committee hearings, conferences and massed voices of protest or praise. Many of the participants sang off key, of course. But they sang in a singleness of spirit...