Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investors putting money down with IGBE knew about the Alderdice brothers' past. Before striking gold with IGBE, William had tried his luck with a wig salon, a penny arcade, a restaurant and a concert-promotion business. Florida police revealed last week that the brothers had arrest records that over the years included charges of assault, vagrancy, indecent exposure and writing bad checks...
...whose solid but unexceptional drumming talents were eventually unequal to the demands of the more complex Beatles music; Paul had to dub in Ringo's parts in the studio. Epstein agonized over a merchandising deal that lost the Beatles millions, but Lennon consoled himself with cash delivered by concert promoters in brown paper bags. Epstein took 25%, and the band got the rest. As young, hungry rockers playing in Hamburg, West Germany, the Beatles contracted, and were cured of, any number of venereal diseases. Later, rich and famous beyond anyone's wildest imaginings, they would become infected with...
...language of Civil Defense officials guiding people to a bomb shelter. This is a touch of genius. The cast doesn't talk about the horrors of crowd mentality nor does it act them out it simply produces it. Remember the stampede that killed 11 kids at a Who concert...
...York Philharmonic. The problem child among orchestras, the Philharmonic is like the little girl with the curl. Plagued by a reputation as a temperamental aggregation, it sometimes lives up to it, as it did last year on the occasion of its 10,000th concert when it delivered a ragged account of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. Yet under Music Director Zubin Mehta, 46, it can also deliver a blistering performance of something as difficult as Schoenberg's expressionist opera Erwartung, as it did recently with Soprano Hildegarde Behrens. Among other distinctions, the Philharmonic is the most unpredictable orchestra...
...within the grouping at the top, the world-class orchestras can be counted on to show consistency and staying power, essential elements of their greatness. As the Cincinnati Symphony's general manager, Steven Monder, puts it, "I don't think an orchestra has a good concert or a good season or a good couple of seasons and all of a sudden it is one of the foremost orchestras in the world. It takes years and years of a strong tradition, of building and experience." -By Michael Walsh. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and James Shepherd/London