Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...session had come not a moment too soon. The images of starving Ethiopian children that first flashed across television screens more than a year ago continue to haunt and outrage people the world over. A wellspring of sympathy gave rise last year to Live Aid, the globally televised rock concert aimed at putting an end to famine, and last week to Sport Aid, a 78-country marathon to raise more funds...
Fourteen years later, Mia Chung '86 is sharing her gift with the rest of the world as the most renowned concert musician to come out of Harvard since the cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76. In April, she was the first Harvard student in 10 years to give a benefit concert when she performed for Phillips Brooks House at Sanders Theater. Her next recital will be at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. later this month, and she has been invited to compete in the Gina Bauchauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City...
...good. "One night I saw this 10-year-old performing a concerto with the Boston Pops: She was my age. That really struck home, and I was thinking, 'Boy, she is incredible.' She played a Haydn concerto, I remember distinctly. I was so impressed that right after that concert I started to practice and I said if someone at that age can be that good I really want to know how far I can push myself. I knew then that I would be a pianist...
...funny. Freshman year, when I first came here, I was thinking, in the back of my mind, well, economics or law. But then I had these concert commitments, and I was immediately channelled into music. There was no doubt in my mind that that was what I was supposed...
...Colt 47 revival type of concert," says 350th publicist David Sanders. Colt 47 was club in Harvard Square during the 50s and 60s where many folk singers played and got their start...