Word: concertize
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This is not to say that classical and romantic works--the staples of any concert repertoire--are not the great creations that everyone automatically considers them. The familiar figures like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven did indeed write music unrivaled for all time. But occasionally one yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that...
What is to be done if the emphasis in concert is almost always on composers dating before World War II and usually concentrates on the baroque, classical and early romantic eras? The answer is to search for the occasional performance of contemporary works which find their proper milieu in our own twentieth century, instead of evoking the Europe or America of the eighteenth...
...concerts of contemporary music appear this week amid the mass of baroque and classical works. They afford the opportunity of hearing some very recent compositions which, although probably not destined for the celebrity of Beethoven's Fifth, importantly reflect musical ideas of the present. The Harvard Group for New Music, a dependable source of contemporary works, performs new compositions by Harvard composers Cacioppo, Cardora and Wissmuller, in a free concert on Saturday at Holmes Hall, North House. Masterworks Chorale presents a festival of "Music of Our Time" on Sunday, including works of New England composers Arthur Berger, David Del Tredici...
Among the other concerts at Harvard this week is an Open Sight-reading of Telemann's Suite in A minor for flute and strings. All experienced string players are welcome to the reading on Sunday in Mather Dining Room at 3 p.m. The Winthrop House Music Society presents Music for Three Cellos by Handel, Fattorini and Couperin. The performers are Andy Collins, Greg Colburn and John Relmand. The only curious thing about this concert is that I've been told that it includes cello music "and also blues." In any case, the recital is on Sunday...
...separate instrumental sections as well as the Bohemian flavor with great clarity. The ending, in which the horns lead an exciting theme involving the entire orchestra, revealed the same mastery of dynamics, color and suggestive instrumentation that the orchestra showed throughout the evening and that made the concert especially enjoyable and provocative for the listener...