Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large, white Chopin medallion suspended like a full moon against velvety blackness- but the first figure the audience saw, a hefty man in swallowtail coat, headed across the stage to play Chopin on a grand piano. Yet it was a ballet after all, a new one called The Concert. Made up of Choreographer Jerome (Peter Pan) Robbins' irreverent ideas of what might go on in a listener's wandering mind during a musical evening, it turned out to be the funniest farce in a blue balletomoon...
...Manhattan's concert halls last week the intermission air was filled with overcordial "hellos," frequently followed by apologies: "Sorry I didn't hear your new work, but I-uh-was having rehearsals for my own, you know...
...Cambridge Quartet made the crucial jump from the status of four good musicians playing together to a finely coordinated unit in its second concert. Sunday's recital clearly showed the group's improvement. The entire program was well-polished and particularly impressive was its playing of Haydn's Quartet Op. 20 No. 5 which had the restraint and stylization necessary for "the father of the Quartet...
Friday night's concert by the Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Groups was their best of the year. For a program divided between madrigals and modern works, G. Wallace Woodworth used only the small choruses from each group, numbering around 60. The reduction in quantity of singers brought about a sizable improvement in tonal quality, especially in the delicate madrigals...
Welcoming the Radcliffe singers back, the Glee Club sang Two Odes of Horace with a truly gorgeous tone. Composer Randall Thompson is a well-known expert at choral writing, and when his music is sung well the result is memorable. The concert closed with Trois Chansons by Ravel. These are a kind of musical sandwich, with a lovely lyrical piece between two witty, ironic and bitter-sweet choral songs. The performances were again excellent. If Woodworth can train his full choruses as well as he has trained the smaller groups, audiences will really have to sit up this spring...