Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, Saturday night's concert started good and got better. The concert opened with the Sunday Jazz Band, who performed a sophisticated arrangement by longtime Harvard Jazz Band collaborator Jeff Friedman of the Thelonious Monk tune "Brilliant Corners." The Monday Band then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...
...think it's very important what the OFA does in terms of giving grants directly to students," said Ho after the concert. "So much of art in this society has been commodified simply to make money...
Despite these concerns, the concert Saturday evening was a success in that it under-scored the continuity of the Jazz Band's 25 years. As the undergraduate Jazz Bands performed on the stage of Sanders Theater for a near-capacity crowd teeming with band alumni of various ages, one could sense the implicit understanding linking those who had once played on the stage and those who now occupied it. Enthralled audience members seemed hardly to notice the passing of time during the three-hour long concert, aside from their fruitless squirming to find a semi-comfortable position on Sanders' cruel...
...important aim of the performances and events of the weekend was to offer tribute to the evolution of jazz education at Harvard. Tom Everett, director of bands at Harvard, was honored at various points in the concert for his 25-year-long dedication to the Jazz Band. Everett received, among other things, an engraved dish from the OFA, a letter from jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson affectionately describing him as being "from another planet" and heartfelt thanks and appreciation from band alumni...
...hear the same message at Commencement, and yet I do not greet it with apprehension. It is true, however, that the concert had different aims than would a Commencement speech; Christianity was broached, as Finer correctly points out, and in all likelihood that was the point of the staging of the concert...