Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIRD ANNUAL FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach, Fla., features the London Symphony, directed by André Previn and guests, starting July 18. A "real blockbuster" is promised for the final concert on Aug. 11, when the orchestra will number 200 players to do justice to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture...
...Nowhere is the student-worker rift so potentially embarrassing as in Communist "worker states" themselves, and last week, in Yugoslavia, the revolution gap appeared. It began in the now familiar Paris pattern, when police used water cannons and clubs to turn back Belgrade university students from an overcrowded pop concert; next day, some 2,000 students occupied the campus in downtown Belgrade. Also as usual, they advertised their grievances on signs and banners...
Before long, more of his music ought to be finding its way into the concert halls and onto recordings. Several of Gottschalk's long-lost major works, notably the Montevideo Symphony and the one-act opera Escenas Campestres, have been found in a private collection in Rio de Janeiro and have been purchased for the New York Public Library by Concert Pianist Eugene List. 'He was a real pioneer," says List. "His writing is sometimes Chopinesque, sometimes Lisztian, but always definitely American in flavor. It's scintillating, tuneful, fresh. It could have been written today...
...place, Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. Bev erly has at last found her destiny. At 39, she is the New York City Opera's prima donna and clearly ranks as one of the two or three finest coloraturas in the world. At the New York Phil harmonic Promenade Concert, she sings a selection of Viennese arias and songs by Kalman, Korngold, Mozart and Richard Strauss, displaying a faultless voice that sweeps with elaborate embellishments to feathery, accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic pleas for concerts...
...number of other Stravinsky works will also be presented in concert by the seminar, Crooks said...