Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rollins, Art Blakey. Jazz is the first Western music in which the audience participates in the creative process. With classical, you have to really learn the music, learn the instrument. You have to be as faithful to it as possible." On Dec. 4, Marsalis will test his fidelity in concert at New York City's Lincoln Center, appearing with Flautist Hubert Laws and Soprano Kathleen Battle on a program that will highlight both Bach and Ellington. Next year Marsalis promises he will be doing "a number of classical performances...
...concern for image extends beyond the College to the Cambridge community. Harvard and Neighborhood Development (HAND), a public service program which pairs groups of local children to House-recruited volunteers, is administered through the Houses. Other Houses sponsor other benefits: Dunster House is holding a Sanders Theater concert to benefit hunger relief...
...Richmond. "But the captions were very helpful. Even though I understand French, I wouldn't have grasped a lot of what was being sung without them." Cyril Harris, who designed the acoustics for New York City's Avery Fisher Hall, was also impressed. Harris, a stickler for concert-hall perfection, said, "I thought the captions would be distracting, but they weren...
...first hint came at 7:15 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday. Nikolai Shchelokov, the Minister for Public Order, had just delivered a brief television address to celebrate Militia Day, and millions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the live pop concert that was supposed to follow. Instead, without explanation, a film about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9, came Vremya (Time), the nightly news. The announcers, who usually dress informally, wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran to my neighbors to find out if they knew what was going on," a Moscow secretary said. "Everyone was excited. We all thought somebody...
...What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees programmed by the maestro himself. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Chateaubriand and vegetables." 1980: Life...