Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenneth McIntosh '58, piano, and Katherine Gratwick, violin, will give a concert of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Saint Saens, and John H. Harbison '60 tonight at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...entire dynasty of Bach Society Orchestra conductors participated in the orchestra's final concert of the season Sunday night. The founder of the orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, led the first Boston performance of Berg's Kammerkonzert for Piano, Violin, and thirteen Wind Instruments; next year's conductor, John Harbison, made a brief debut; and Michael Senturia made his last appearance as conductor of the orchestra. It was a very nostalgic evening...
...Senturia made a short appearance in the first half of the concert to accompany Dorothy Crawford in A. Scarlatti's "Ombre Opache" and Monteverdi's Con Che Soavita. Mrs. Crawford used her pure voice to great advantage in instilling warmth and emotion into the arias, and Mr. Senturia provided her with sensitive accompaniment...
Flying into London for a two-week concert tour, robust Singer Ella Fitzgerald ran afoul of tight-lipped British customs officials, who held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores...
Married. Josepha Heifetz, 27, concert pianist, daughter of Violinist Jascha Heifetz; and Robert Byrne, 27, editor of Western Construction, a San Francisco engineering trade magazine; in San Francisco...