Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often that one gets to hear an extended composition in the jazz context, so when the Harvard Jazz Band under the direction of Tom Everett performed not one but two fully composed jazz suites last Friday night, it was a truly rare treat. Last Friday night's concert featured popular New Orleans clarinetist Alvin Batiste playing alongside the students from the band. Batiste's performance capped off a week in residence at Harvard, the latest in the series of internationally-acclaimed jazz musicians who have worked with students through the Office for the Arts's "Learning from Performers" program...
Despite a squeaky reed, Batiste lent an aura of majesty and lyricism to the concert with his finely crafted melodic lines and stately tone. It is interesting to compare the sound of 63-year old Batiste with that of last spring's guest, fellow clarinetist Don Byron, who is only in his 30's. While Batiste's sound is not physically as strong as Byron's, his clean, well-trained lines call attention to themselves nonetheless. In introducing the Thad Jones waltz "A Child Is Born," Batiste played into the guts of the opened grand piano and used the Steinway...
...CONCERT HALL: THE ORchestra, smartly attired in white tie and tails; the elegant conductor, raising his slender baton as he prepares to give the downbeat; the dramatically beautiful young violinist resplendent in...a wet T shirt...
...years, a dashing, Byronic image was eagerly sought after by many of the important figures in composition and performance. Franz Liszt, devastatingly handsome, was the most famous lover in Europe as well the greatest pianist; women fought over the cigar butts he left on the piano after a concert. Leopold Stokowski, the great conductor who shook Mickey Mouse's hand in Fantasia, used to ensure that the lighting at his concerts highlighted his aquiline countenance and halo of long hair. In short, sex has always sold. What's new is that it is women who are now doing the selling...
...quartet now wants to downplay. "We were not happy with that picture," says Paisner, who founded the group in 1988. "We thought it was a little too sexy, although it succeeded in getting attention. But people were inclined to take us less seriously." The group now generally performs in concert dress, although a recent appearance at New York City's Lincoln Center found them arrayed in stylish designer outfits...