Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volunteer Teachers for Africa, a PBH group, is sponsoring the concert. Profits will go to the Committee for Ethiopian Literacy, a four-year-old organization of Ethiopian students in the United States with headquarters at Harvard...
When the Harvard Glee Club puts together a concert, it builds on a rock-solid foundation--tradition. Since the turn of the century when it was billed as America's leading male chorus, its footing has slipped a little, but it has become a symbol of undergraduate spirit as well as the standard bearer of varsity choral singing. Last Friday evening's concert glowed all over with a warm sense of nostalgia and not infrequently caught fire with the best that 100 years of singing has to offer...
Soloists played an important role in the evening, and especially in the group of folk songs and spirituals that closed the second third of the concert. James Jones, baritone, once again stood out for the sheer professionalism of his performance. There was, however, a certain unaccustomed tightness in his production which did not, in the end, mar the overall effect. Also featured were Allan Haley, tenor, Donald Meaders, baritone. Martin Kessler, baritone, an excellent sextet in Webbe's "Glorious Appollo," and Phil Kelsey doing several prodigious "swoops" in the Poulenc...
Knussen agreed, even though he had never conducted a major orchestra before. At the concert, his arm gestures often looked more like karate chops than cues, and his beat faltered briefly in the second movement. But for the most part, he did amazingly well, and his new work-an uninhibited, brightly colored score built around a twelve-tone row-made a handsome impression on the Londoners in the audience, who applauded tumultuously for ten minutes in the obvious belief that they had witnessed a very special kind of event...
PHYSICALLY, Carlotta Wilsen is a performer difficult to miss. Her brilliant red hair, and chiselled Nordic-Gaelic features, combined with statuesque height and posture to match, give her a striking concert presence, one that has not been seen here in a long time...