Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered statistics and lists. Last Christmas the Bavarian radio helped Hoosman put on a party for 40 Munich Negerkinder. He got headlines in the West German press by smuggling out of East Germany a little Negerkind named Roswitha Kubik. Louis Armstrong and his band raced over from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich children. Last week Munich's Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer promised Hoosman official support for "your great cause." Al Hoosman of Waterloo, Iowa, a man with a cause, as well as an itch to write verse, combined...
...Jersey-born Violinist Max Polikoff has a theory about modern composers: "Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music." To enhance the composer while he is still alive is Violinist Polikoffs avocation. Last week, in Manhattan's 92nd Street Y.M.H.A., Polikoff gave the sixth concert in his annual "Music in Our Time" series, one of the nation's most remarkable sounding boards for contemporary compositions...
...concert was not over at the curtain. A key to Director Polikoff s program is a postconcert forum in which the audience is invited to fire questions at the composers. In preceding concerts, audiences have pulled no punches: "What does it mean?" "Why doesn't it have any melody?" "Do you have to make it sound so complicated?" From the blunt questions, Polikoff hopes everybody learns something. Last week's haymaker: "With whom are you trying to communicate?" Replied fiercely complex Composer Sessions: "With anyone who will listen. All the composer asks is a willing...
...voice registers two distinctly different tones. When he reminisces about his life, or discusses the historical aspect of folk music, it is matter-of-fact. But whenever he talks of his concern for peace and understanding, or his faith in mankind, he seems to project himself onto the concert stage: his voice becomes resonant and sincere. He is like a universal lover pleading with the world to 'believe in me, for I speak the truth...
Seeger rolled the cuffs of his dull orange shirt above his elbows. He was dressed informally--blue pants and work shoes. (At the concert next evening he added a red tie and dark jacket...