Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benito Mussolini used to spend odd hours sawing on a fiddle and lamenting the dictator's fate that kept him from becoming "a great concert violinist." This week one of the hottest jazz pianists in a land of few jazz piano players, a musician billed as Romano Full, will make his public debut with a quintet at San Remo's International Jazz Festival. His full name: Romano Mussolini, 28, Il Duce's youngest son. Unlike his father, who could read music, Romano is musically illiterate but plays by ear better than Il Duce did by note. Romano...
...camera focused on a dignified-looking orchestra, high foreheads gleaming above the violins. Only unusual fact about the concert: most of the musicians were doctors. One of the outstanding amateur orchestras in the U.S., the Doctors' Orchestral Society of New York, was making its live TV debut...
...Each concert now has to be given twice to meet the demand-and it looks as if next year the programs will have to be played three times...
Last week Conductor James Robertson led the Wichita Symphony in its third concert of the season. The program ranged from the almost-modern Sibelius Concerto in D Minor (with 28-year-old Violinist Aaron Rosand) to Rimsky-Korsakov's well-worn Scheherazade-which miffed a few of Wichita's growing number of musical sophisticates, but wowed the big audiences. The performances sounded as rich and bold as a big-city orchestra...
Welles vowed that he would play out the run of Lear, "if they have to swing me over the stage with wire." Then he agreed to an audience request that he tell the story of Lear, acting the King's part. He interrupted his little concert only once -to apologize for having made a mistake in the text. "I'm terribly nervous," he said, "but I know why I made that mistake." Then he said to someone in the first row center: "Please don't take pictures. That clicking noise sounds like the breaking of bones...