Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the alumni will take over Symphony Hall for a special concert of the Boston Pops...
Overtures. Key sentence was a cautiously worded expression of "Christian concern that the day may soon come when our Government, in concert with other free nations, may enter with honor into normal relations with the government of the Chinese people...
...writing of it, White manages to convey the dignity of the two crippled ancients and the courage of the lonely, ridiculous African. The story ends with a clink and a gurgle. "Our faces glowing with liquor, our eyes more flashing, our tongues volubly tripping and repeating, we had great concert of talk and narrative, admiring ourselves and one another with warm, welcoming, smiling, appreciative, comradely, rosy hearts. We talked of motor engines and Henry Ford, of poith?n and the fairy fire, of famous poachers and deeds of blood and all the subtle stratagems of the Gael...
...folk singing concert, it is almost a curiosity that all of the selections are in English. When asked why the group did not sing foreign songs, Jones remarked, "I guess we don't know any." A better explanation might be gleaned from the group's parody of esoteric folk singing. Explaining that some Greenwich Villagers had criticized their repertoire as lacking in "real folk songs," they proceeded to sing "a real field song--Field Holler" ("We found it in a field," Jones said) and "a real mountain song--"Bring Me Back My Brown-Eyed Girl" ("We found...
...record jacket for 3 Folk Sing states that "folk songs should be sung for the same reason they've always been sung, because they're fun." This philosophy comes across well in the concert. It shows originality, ingenuity, spontaneity...