Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Held up by Middlesex traffic while driving Princess Anne to Windsor Great Park, bandanna-topped Queen Elizabeth II checked her right of way like any Levittown housewife meeting the 5:12, later dressed up in jeweled finery to catch the looth anniversary concert...
...sustained consistency in performance quality that is the important, the telling factor-and that only time can determine." Cliburn, meanwhile, kept up his wowing ways in Great Britain, where, after a word tussle with London airport officials over his working permit, he scored neatly with a concert in the Royal Albert Hall, mooned to his audience: "I am an unabashed romantic...
...better luck than Nixon," said Conductor Leonard Bernstein, "but then he's in a different line of business. All we did was play music." The New York Philharmonic was completing a 38-concert, twelve-country tour of Latin America that lit a fire of good will from one end of the continent to the other. Back home this week. Conductors Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos and the 107 members of the orchestra were to be hailed at New York's city hall for a job superbly done...
When he completed his final concert, even indefatigable Conductor Bernstein was exhausted. Standing wrapped in Serge Koussevitzky's old black velvet opera cloak at the Rio airport, he signed a last round of autographs. "It's over now," he said limply. "It'll cost the U.S. Government about $250,000, less than one jet. But millions of people heard an American orchestra and liked...
...clapped and stamped until he had walked ten times with ramrod dignity from the wings and bowed misty-eyed to the packed hall. After 20 years, 69-year-old Pianist Rubinstein was back in the country of his birth and in the city-Warsaw-where he played his first concert 63 years...