Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Musicis: Edward Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Saturday...
Tristan and Isolde Through the Middle Ages: music based on the legend, BU Concert Hall, Friday...
...Administration, in concert with four other ranking financial powers, began what amounts to a campaign to devalue the U.S. dollar. Emerging from an extraordinary Sunday meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Treasury Secretary James Baker and finance ministers and central bank governors of Britain, France, West Germany and Japan appeared before TV cameras with a major announcement. "Orderly appreciation of the main nondollar currencies against the dollar is desirable," said the five, and they "stand ready to encourage this." Blunt translation: the greenback is grossly overvalued in terms of how many pounds, francs, deutsche marks...
...little, and everything will settle down? Think again; that is not going to happen for a while. There are two immediate reasons why: the release the week of Oct. 14 of an impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held at a football stadium in Champaign, Ill., celebrate a unity within the music community even as they signal a further deepening of social awareness...
That works in both political directions. Neil Young stumped heavily at the concert for the controversial Harkin bill, which is also known as the "Farm Policy Reform Act of 1985," while the Charlie Daniels Band held down the conservative wing with banner-waving ditties like In America, which offered the observation that Lady Liberty "may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell." Lou Reed pointed up the irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live...