Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's coverage of "The Jazz Reunion: 15 Years of Jazz at Harvard and Radcliffe" was disappointing, to say the least. After reading the April 18 article, I wondered if any member of The Crimson had attended the concert. The article was a publicity piece which should have run the day of the concert, not the day after. As a plug for the concert, it was sufficient; as a report, inadequate. Not only was the article replete with errors and inconsistencies, including the misspelling of several names, there was no reference to the celebratory events which took place in Sanders...
Because Harvard's jazz program is one of its best kept secrets, a goal of the celebration was to increase people's awareness of jazz and the quality of the program at Harvard. The Crimson, by running a deficient article after the concert, adds to people's ignorance and perpetuates the problem. Doesn't jazz deserve better? Alexandra B. Houck...
...according to Horowitz. Here Horowitz invokes the theories of Theodor Adorno, a Marxist of the Frankfurt school. Adorno, Horowitz writes, understood culture of the "bourgeois epoch"--"affirmative" and "official"--as neglecting the contradictions inherent in great art. Although proponents claimed classical would lead to universal enlightenment, "aspects of the concert hall experience were standardized, atomized, `fetishized,'" by alienated members of a "commodity society...
Cornell has almost sold out its 5000 concert tickets, said concert organizers...
...contacted Elvis when they [management] were just developing their tour plans," said former SPA chairman James D. Chung '88. "We were probably one of the first colleges to contact Elvis about his type of concert," he added...