Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert that the HRO is billing as "An Evening With Three Romantics," the sweeping Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto figures to be the most accessible and romantic offering. Listeners' ears have changed much since the concerto's premiere in Boston more than a century ago, after which the work was hailed as "extremely difficult, strange, wild, ultra-modern," and, "like the first pancake, a flop...
Besides the Tchaikovsky concerto, tonight's concert will include Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, music with wondrous sonorities and rich modulations, and the "Inextinguishable" symphony of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), which promises to be the most "modern"--not to say "unromantic"--work of the evening...
...concert segments which Frank included do seem to have the express intent of deglamorizing the musicians and their work. During a concert with Stevie Wonder, for example, we watch Mick Jagger awkwardly attempt to share a mike with the blind musician. He bends over Stevie's piano bench, dodges the waves of his unknowing head, looks exasperated and finally gives up. The one close-up on Stevie himself captures him as he accidentally knocks his dark glasses off and fumbles to slip them back...
Most boys find their idols at political rallies, baseball stadiums or concert halls. When Pindaros Roy Vagelos was a teenager, he found his heroes at a luncheonette. In the late 1940s he mixed malteds and cleaned counters after school at Estelle's, the diner that his Greek immigrant family owned in Rahway, N.J. The town was, and still is, home to the laboratories of Merck, the giant pharmaceutical firm, and at lunchtime the company's research scientists often wandered into Estelle's, six blocks away. There Vagelos eavesdropped as the men who made Merck's miracle medicines talked about their...
Benz said that the concert is being held in part to keep the divestment issue alive in the press. She said that the recent press ban in South Africa has caused a decrease in activism because of a declining awareness of apartheid...