Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swifter punishments for gambling violations "arguably less prolonged and offensive," he was ringing an alarm that has chilled baseball since 1920. The Chicago "Black Sox" threw the 1919 World Series and almost threw away the public's confidence in the integrity of the game. The club owners, acting in concert, created the commissioner's office for the explicit purpose of clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers...
...never abandoned the stage, I never left the stage, I only took time," said Van Cliburn, who had not appeared in a public concert or made a recording in nearly eleven years. It was 2:30 a.m., Cliburn's favored hour for interviews, since he usually sleeps from 5 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon. As he talked about his return to the stage that he had never left, he grew increasingly adamant. "I never retired, and I don't think that classical musicians do. It's unthinkable...
Part of the Kronos allure is that the group spices up technically assured string playing with slick show-biz trappings. The four frequently perform in color-coordinated outfits, and their concerts are often akin to performance art. Beyond that, the Kronos is a resolute, almost fanatic champion of new music. It has given world premieres of more than 200 works, including five so far this year. "When people come to a Kronos concert," says Jeanrenaud, "they know they will hear something that requires a reaction, even if they don't like what they are hearing. You can't just...
...evidence, consider the Kronos concert at Manhattan's Alice Tully Hall last month. It was a multimedia program, arranged by the avant-garde Italian stage designer Alessandro Moruzzi, titled "Assembly Required." Dressed in unisex costumes of jet-black shirts and slacks, the four musicians walked onto a stage jumbled with speakers, tape equipment and an assortment of lights and mechanical gears. Before each of the scheduled four works, played without intermission, the Kronos members, in stately, choreographed movements, placed the lights and objects to cast different shadow forms on four screens set up behind their chairs. The program typically offered...
...council discloses that its spring concert, featuring Suzanne Vega, lost $20,000 because it failed to sell out 3000-seat Bright Arena. Council officials blame the ROTC crisis for cutting short advertising...