Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a palpable esprit. The school sits in Soho, a hard-eating, hard-drinking area with plenty of counterculture and a large, artsy homosexual population. The place bubbles with creative activity--and has for decades. The singer Sade was a student in the '70s, and the first Sex Pistols concert was held there. Louise Wilson, head of the graduate program, says, "Lots of French designers come from good backgrounds, but here the likelihood is that kids are punk, with an emphasis on the street...
Maybe competitions could be held for literary material focused on each of the most familiar waits Americans put up with--driver's-license renewals, rock-concert ticket lines. Not drawbridge waits. That's been taken care...
...louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece, which the composer wrote as a senior project at the age of 18 (and you think you work too hard on your thesis). Or maybe the orchestra is just more comfortable in the twentieth century; in one concert last year, it seemed to do better in Petrushka than in a simpler piece by Wagner...
...least, that's what they thought they were in for. In fact, thanks to a distinctly odd choice of works for this first concert of the season, HRO presented more of a caricature of the Apollonian: lots of tuxedos, not much excitement. The program lacked a major, wellbeloved anchor work; the closest thing to a classical Top 40 hit was Beethoven's Leonore No. 3 Overture, which is popular but too short to build a concert around. It was followed by the distinctly sub-average Triple Concerto of Beethoven, and the interesting but comparatively obscure Symphony No. 1 of Shostakovich...
Last spring, mass e-mailings became an issue when a member of the Opportunes sent a message advertising an a capella concert. Administrators said the mass e-mail was a violation of University policy...