Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Krokodiloes, Harvard's oldest a cappella singing group, will perform a 50th Anniversary Concert next weekend in Sanders Theater...
...spring concert has become almost a rite of passage for the Undergraduate Council...
...when PepsiCo made a $15,000 grant to Harvard that ultimately found its way into the council's coffers, many traditionalists wanted to use it to throw the annual campuswide party. But the would-be concert organizers faced one large obstacle: the ever-growing council contingent that is more concerned with social issues than social events...
Whoever programmed the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's concert last Friday night clearly wasn't looking for crowd-pleasers; there wasn't a Beethoven symphony or Mozart concerto to be found in Sanders Theater. Instead, the orchestra gamely offered up a trancelike Wagner overture, a defiantly modernist Stravinsky ballet and--strangest of all--a bassoon concerto. While Wagner and Stravinsky are hardly obscure, it's not every day that you get to hear the bassoon--an instrument that ranks with the tuba and bass in ungainliness--dominate the stage...
...evening's centerpiece was Carl Maria von Weber's Bassoon Concerto in F Major, a piece which even the concert program admitted "lacks something in originality." At best, the concerto is lively and clever, taking advantage of the bassoon's peculiar, step-like dexterity; the third movement's themes are almost jolly. But at other times it's hard to tell whether the composer intended what sound like humorous effects; the second movement's creeping themes were reminiscent of the Pink Panther's sly theme song. Similarly, the soloist's first entries in the first movement are preceded by total...