Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows tonight because of Bob Zimmerman concert...
From Music Foundation presents Terry Riley in Concert with Descending Moonshine Dervishes. Sanders Theater...
...small private plane flew over Providence en route to Boston, the pilot turned on his FM radio and heard the announcement for an upcoming concert. Wow! He immediately landed the plane, took a taxi downtown and bought a pair of tickets. Then he resumed his flight. Standing in line at a supermarket in Plymouth, Mass., a young couple was given a handbill bearing similar news. Wow! They left their cart where it was and dashed downtown to buy tickets. And so it went as the word spread. "Is he really coming?" asked a teen-age girl at the ticket window...
...Dylan was really coming. As elusive and provocative as ever, the onetime prophet of protest has launched his first road tour in almost two years. It is not a complete surprise: like most rock stars on the concert circuit, Dylan happens to have a new single, Hurricane, just out and an album on the way. But his tour is different. It began, of all places, in Plymouth, where the Pilgrims settled, and it quickly became an oddly timeless journey: a rambling, almost casual camper and bus tour of college towns and blue-collar community halls. Ticket sales for such places...
These woes climax an unusual period in which the world's major economies have been moving in concert on a wild roller-coaster course. First, in 1972, all the leading economies swung into a boom at the same time-a boom that, combined with poor harvests and price gouging later by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, aggravated global inflation. By early 1974, price increases in the OECD nations reached an unsustainable compound annual rate of 16.8%. Then, as one government after another moved to curb inflation by dampening demand, all the key economies rapidly tumbled into recession...