Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing to discuss the slides shown by Elvis Costello at last Friday's concert, slides which showed a disturbing pattern and which poisoned much of the concert...
...followed this injunction regarding his slides and their grim meaning. Perhaps it is too much to expect of him, perhaps the audience's reaction shows that he is just a reflection of a more general misogyny. But this cannot excuse him. The slides, presumably added as humor, gave the concert a sinister feel. A musician need not be a propagandist of rape culture. David Woodruff...
...problem seems to be that Costello wishes to be regarded as the voice of a generation in the way that Sinatra is, but he can't resist making a silly joke out of the whole process. As the beginning of his concert proved, Costello does not need the usual rock and roll trickery to be effective. He comes across most powerfully as a serious singer-songwriter with an arresting voice and a seemingly bottomless well of creative ideas. As his fans, we should demand that our voice come without all the Vegas bullshit...
...children played games, listened to an impromptu concert by the Krokodiloes, and danced to the Harvard songs and show tunes of the Harvard band, said Elisa Fernandez '88, who, with Melissa Bayer '88 and Margaret Watt '88, co-organized the event. Afterward, the children were shuttled to the Science Center to see a special showing of "Superman...
...concert, a three-hour musical powerplay spanning Costello's entire songwriting career, drew four curtain calls from an audience on its feet...