Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chamber music selections from the thirteenth century to the present will be performed at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall. This concert is open without charge to registered Harvard and M.I.T. Summer School students who obtain passes at Room 1 in Grays Hall...
...Monday evening at 8:30 p.m., a group of Cambridge musicians will perform contemporary American chamber music. The first performance of Allan Sapp's Sonata No. 4 for Piano will be the featured work of this Sanders Theatre concert...
Jimmy Giuffre's The Pentatonic Man. In last week's concert, the band started stiffly, and the rhythm section never got completely untracked; but by the time they closed the set, the European cats were playing with the cohesive drive of a bunch of much-practiced pros...
...most prolific composers in the recent history of opera was British-born (of French descent) Piano Virtuoso Eugène d'Albert. In a career otherwise occupied with six marriages, teaching and lucrative concert tours, he managed to compose 20 musical melodramas, ending with a preposterous oriental olio called Mr. Wu that he left unfinished when he died in 1932. Most of his concoctions were unqualified flops, partly because Composer d'Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life...
Hindemith: Concert Music for Piano, Brass and Two Harps; Concerto for Orchestra (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Decca). Composer Paul Hindemith himself conducts two samples from transitional points (1930 and 1935) in his career. Concert Music plays sounding brasses against whispering harps and a trip-hammered piano in a mood of agitated melancholy; Concerto opens with the full orchestra piling forward over chiseling strings at a martial trot that is remarkable for its sheer momentum and verve. Neither piece is vintage Hindemith, but both are expert, sophisticated and full of orchestral surprises...