Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today the idea of a Big Five has generally lost its validity. "On any given night, one can hear a concert of excellent quality," says Stephen Sell, executive director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "There probably hasn't been a Big Five for half a decade." Agrees John Edwards, executive vice president and general manager of the Chicago Symphony and, at 70, the dean of U.S. orchestra administrators: "Basically, the concept of a Big Five is outmoded." Determined by the musicians' technical command, the conductor's leadership and the intangible element of inspiration, excellence is no longer quite...
...barriers between the different worlds of music are breaking down, as is the media through which music reaches the public. Artists like Max Neuhaus--whose most well-known "work" is a sonorous organ sound which emerges from a Times Square grating--has redefined music, taking it out of the concert halls and making it a truly "popular" art form...
Artistically and sociologically, [Latin music] is a ghetto. Latin music plays its own concert circuit, with its own record labels, radio stations and [usually Spanish language] fan magazines...Success is purchased at the price of a steady pattern of exploitation and corruption that is less obvious now in the upper reaches of the mainstream pop-music business. And whatever success a Latin performer does achieve is source by an awareness of the greater success available on just the other side of the street, and by the strictures that tradition and subcultural rigidity place on a creative composer...
...same as Disney U.S. ticket prices. The crush is expected to be so great that, for the first time in any Disney park, a reservation system has been established so people can buy specific time slots in the park in advance, much as they would buy tickets to a concert...
...have meant little to Interior Secretary James Watt, 43, which, of course, was the problem. Watt, it seems, is a dim bulb when it comes to rock music. Otherwise why would he have tried to ban the wholesome harmonies of the Beach Boys from the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario's alternative choice to show "the glories of America in a patriotic and inspirational way": Vegas Lounge Lizard Wayne Newton...