Word: concertizer
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...really a problem that I had not heard it until the end of my sophomore year of college. Not everyone agrees with me.My girlfriend grew up in Bethesda, Md. The D-Plan’s lead singer once called her parents to persuade them to let her attend a concert they were playing in a bad part of town. When I told her I was going to write about “Emergency & I,” she was not amused. “You didn’t even know that record existed until I gave...
...place last semester, it was postponed due to “logistical reasons” caused by the recent opening of the Queen’s Head. The organizers expressed satisfaction about the size of the crowd, which had equal numbers of men and women. They added that the concert will become an annual fixture. Saturday night’s performers commented on the difficulty of forging a place in Harvard’s music scene as a woman. “I was surprised at how many times women were absent from the musical social events. Women tend...
...studio to make June’s “Easy Tiger” and the just-released “Follow the Lights” EP. But, for most of the oughts, drugs and alcohol meant that his shows would be either the best or the worst concert you’d seen in a long while.All this has made Adams one of the most frustrating musicians around. Between 2003 and 2005 he recorded five purportedly-mediocre albums–and countless other unreleased tracks still confined to his vaults, which supposedly also contain a song-for-song cover...
...whole point [is] to not be too in-your-face or condescending”—to present your argument simply, without over-simplifying.Ross manages the spectacular feat of making this crazy music seem logical by taking a modular approach. Rather than trying to pack every opera, symphony, and concert into one narrative, he subdivides relentlessly and then assembles and reassembles the pieces to suit his arguments. (For music theorists, the technique is similar to twelve-tone composition.) Thus, he tracks simultaneous developments like Arnold Schoenberg’s atonal school in Austria and the early jazz compositions of little...
Frank O. Gehry graduated from the Design School in 1957 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts in 2000 by the University. His architectural masterpieces include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles...