Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animated diorama of 1830s concert life, a full panoply of period instruments thrillingly revived under the banner of musical authenticity. Assembled on the stage of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall last week were ranks of gut-stringed violins, wooden flutes, valveless horns, leather-headed kettledrums and even a pair of ophicleides (bass keyed bugles since supplanted by tubas). Standing before them, feet on the ground but soul in the sky, was Norrington, at 54 newly emergent as a formidable leader in the early-music movement...
...couldn't plan an important international look at what's going on in the Soviet Union today without including Harvard as one of the venues," said James Morgan, director of public relations of the Opera Company of Boston, which planned the Sanders concert...
...Savile Row suits and $250 English shoes, but he grew up in the tiny town of Stamford, Texas. Neither of his parents was especially religious, but as Strauss once said, "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive." His father, Charles Strauss, was an aspiring concert pianist who emigrated from Germany in 1915. Landing in New York City, he took a job as a traveling piano salesman. On a swing through Texas, he met and fell in love with Edith Schwartz. The couple married, and Charles Strauss opened a dry- goods store in Stamford that...
...Sunday's concert will feature one piece involving all 13 cellos and several others which include fewer number of players. Admission to the concert is free...
McIntosh said that the performers have enjoyed playing in the choir for reasons other than just the music. "Mainly we just like to play with each other. We want [the concert] to be fun for the audience and for oursleves," she said...