Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a skating party in Bright Hockey Center to a private concert by five a capella singing groups in Dunster House, the Admissions Office every winter does its best to give incoming students their first "real" taste of life in the Ivy League...
Personality may also influence a student's acceptance to the group since groups spend so much time together, says Berner. "You spend so much time together. Rehearsals take a lot of time, as well as weekend retreats, and week-long tours. We may have a concert in Philly at 7 p.m., party with the guys until 1 or 2 a.m. then drive back eight hours together. If a Din says `This guy's really nice; he's really a good guy' that can only help. But you don't need connections per se to get in or anything...
Indeed, Muti can be emotionally chilly, even icy in his interpretations. A believer in the primacy of the printed musical score, Muti brooks no interpolations in his concert versions of Verdi operas, like last October's Rigoletto, which adhered rigorously to a new scholarly edition of the opera, or his 1983 Macbeth. This unsmiling view of what were once popular entertainments, steeped in a popular idiom, is at odds with the spirit of the composer he professes to serve. And in recasting the sound of the orchestra in line with today's international ideal -- brighter, crisper, sharper -- he has rendered...
...benefit concert for 350 workers who are losing their jobs at the 3M plant in Freehold, N.J., promised ten bands for $5. But everyone got more than they bargained for when Bruce Springsteen and members of his E Street Band made a surprise appearance at the Stone Pony, the Asbury Park club where the Boss played in early days. "Remember what we're doing this for," Springsteen told the stunned audience of 500, before breaking into My Hometown, a song about a textile-plant closing in Freehold. Said Springsteen, who was born there and lives in nearby Rumson: "The marriage...
...just assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course, is not endowed with any such powers, sneaky Omar is forced to hire a cockney magician to entrance the unenlightened masses with an haute-rock-concert laser light show which will somehow convince them that he is none other than their prophet-saviour, Al-Jaharah--who, by the way, is being held under house arrest in one of Omar's unused palace attics...