Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naples-born Ray Fabiani, who was brought to the U.S. when he was three, and played violin with the Chicago Opera Co. when he was in his early 20s, tried his hand at concert management. But at the opera one evening, Jim ("The Golden Greek'') Londos, onetime heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, persuaded him that the real money was in the wrestling ring. Publicity-wise Ray Fabiani set up scholarships for young wrestlers (the recipients were sent to a muscle-building gymnasium), lured ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis into a brief and unrewarding wrestling career, spiced...
...bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
...concert Conductor Price had lined up a sampling from the growing literature for percussion ensembles. Included were Malloy Miller's Prelude for Percussion, Lou Harrison's Canticle No. j, Arthur Cohn's Quotations in Percussion, Michael Colgrass' Three Brothers. The most interesting was the Harrison piece, which laid down a hauntingly languorous theme on the ocarina, then echoed itself in a series of guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand...
...overall effect of the concert, despite its shortcomings, was that of a deeply moving, supremely beautiful work of art, which the baroque St. Matthew Passion certainly is. Not even Mr. Munch, with his unduly Romantic approach to the score could destroy that...
...started to be a violinist but abandoned his career when he cut his left hand on a wine bottle, severing the nerve to his little finger. Father Ferras trained his son until he was 15. Christian won a first prize at the Paris Conservatory, soon afterward made his concert debut in Paris. He has been touring steadily since (England, North Africa, South America...