Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concert will be free, and is only three stops away on the MBTA Red Line (Charts). And the balloon men forecast pleasant weather for the weekend...
Last Monday, this group of talented students and internationally known professionals performed four infrequently heard works with their usual conviction and energy. Leon Kirchner, whose talents as a coach were in evidence throughout the concert, showed himself to be a formidable triple threat by appearing as the pianist in his own Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1954). This piece uses a dissonant, non-tonal vocabulary, articulated in driving rhythms and evocative melodic fragments. The result is an almost Romantic sense of clearly defined broad gestures. Kirchner, along with violinist Donald Weilerstein and cellist Laurence Lesser, responded to these qualities...
...only trouble spot in the concert was the Weber Trio in G minor. One of only three chamber works by Weber, this piece changes mood rapidly, sometimes striving toward the darker musical depths, sometimes, as in the second movement, content to rely on an engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard...
...Harvard Summer School concert, with $4 and $3 seats, should be especially attractive to Duke's fans, because Mercer is in the process of changing the orchestra's repertoire to mostly Duke's old stands and a couple of lesser known Ellington varieties...
...everybody's favorite, so I feel helpless in recommending that you don't attend this concert...