Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revive to the extent of attracting compositions from such modern composers as Harvard's Walter Piston. The instrument has also found a place in popular music ("Come On 'a My House"), and it is even being taught at Yale. On Sunday afternoon a Yale professor honored Harvard with a concert that illustrated the reasons for the harpsichord's revival...
Closing the concert with his specialty, the keyboard virtuoso played six little known harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and succeeded in bringing out every nuance and shade of expression. His performance demonstrated once again the fascinating possibilities of this instrument...
...slowly. By contrast, the pipers shook the crowd with their music's wild beauty. It was the fascinating difference between palace panoply and hillside rebel yells. The pipers played a few marches and accompanied eight regimental dancers in a slow fling and a rapid, triumphant reel. After some concert pieces (Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Arditi's // Bacio, etc.) indifferently done by the band, the dancers placed claymores in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike sword dance. By that time, brothers in the gallery had passed the limits...
...first local concert of the Harvard Glee Club served as a preview as well as a benefit for its projected European tour next summer. Several of the works performed on Friday night are being groomed for Europe, anda portion of the concert was sung only by the singers on the European list...
...concert centered about two magnificent choral works, one from the early 17th century and the other from the present day. The early work, sung by the entire Glee Club, was Gabriceli's In Ecclesiis, originally written for two mixed choruses and full brass choir. Friday's performance was severely cut and arranged for men's voices and piano, but even in this version the brilliance and architectural majesty of the music was apparent. The Glee Club tone was large and at times rather strident...