Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idle moment on the Today show, Critic Gene Shalit said he would like to be a conductor. Immediately, the Long Island Rail Road offered him a job. Then the Orchestral Society of Westchester came up with something better: it asked Shalit to lead a concert last week in the garden of Lyndhurst, Financier Jay Gould's old estate on the Hudson River. Shalit, an amateur bassoonist, accepted with pleasure. As a child, he had taken piano lessons: "You know the kind of thing, the music teacher kisses your Fingers to see if you're a genius." Waving...
...night coach passenger who is just beginning to realize he has slept through his stop. But his features have great plasticity. His friend Candice Bergen speaks of his "cobra eyes." His energy level can vary with the most careful calibration. His two best roles-as Bobby Dupea, the thwarted concert pianist in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and David Staebler, the self-consumed and self-deceived radio monologist hi The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)-are shaded with anxiety, shaped with a muted force...
...Harvard Pops Orchestra is playing a free concert Sunday at the Hatch Shell in the Charles River Esplanade. They aren't the Boston Symphony, but the Harvard Pops are still nothing to sneeze at--unless you have hay fever and are allergic to outdoors concerts--and are worth a look...
...revived C. S. N. & Y. is amazingly relaxed. Each star has his own sound man and crew, which adds up to a combined entourage of 84. Like four affable, affluent businessmen bound for a Sunday afternoon of pro football, C. S. N. & Y. travel from hotel to concert in the comfort of an air-conditioned Winnebago motor home. Elaborate picnic barbecues precede each concert, with a catered steak-and-salad dinner served afterward...
...Young are themselves all prosperous adults, owners of mansions and 800-acre ranches. The rhythm of their lives, private and professional, has settled down to moderato. Loud fracases and nocturnal revelries no longer conclude their day's work. Groupies, once omnipresent, are rare. After a recent Oakland concert, Stills, on his way to an informal jam with some members of the Grateful Dead, was accosted by one persistent young lady. To turn her off, he launched into a monologue on the virtues of family living. "Can I stay with you tonight," she insisted, "please, please?" Blinking several times, Stills...