Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a legend in Jubilee history. In entertainment, the committee again found the mark. Between the time the committee contracted the Temptations and the time of the weekend, the Temps had risen to unexpected levels of success and Jubilarians subsequently enjoyed a concert by one of the nation's "hottest" entertainment commodities. But this was nothing compared to what was yet to come...
...words for the cops, who "exercised amazing restraint, ignoring the blatant sexual activities, drinking and doping," until, finally, "the youthful vacationers asked for much of the trouble they got." Stone does not condone the kind of activity that got Singer Jim Morrison charged with indecent exposure during a Miami concert, although the paper ran a typically wry headline: MORRISON'S PENIS is INDECENT. The paper startled its readers by attacking the yippies just before the 1968 Democratic Convention for proposing "methods and means as corrupt as the political machine they hope to disrupt...
...Johnny Cash ... On the Road" stars country-and-Western troubadour Cash, includes Kate Smith, Don Ho and Paul Lynde. A country-music concert medley with Cash's touring show provides the grand finale...
...delights me. It will be played as long as Italian opera exists." As usual, Beethoven was exactly right. Although Gioacchino Rossini dashed off 38 operas before his retirement at the age of 37, he was long known as essentially a one-opera composer. Many of his lively overtures are concert hall staples, but the musical dramas they introduce were generally considered too florid for modern ears and too demanding for contemporary voices...
SFMT--that stands for San Francisco Mime (pronounce it "meem") Troupe, and they came to Harvard yesterday to help the revolution. After marching to the Loeb as the "SFMT Gorilla Band," and holding a brief rally-concert to greet Faculty members, they marched back to the Mem Church steps where a more receptive audience was waiting...