Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty singers from the Summer School will present a concert on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, tonight at 9. The program, under the direction of Harold C. Schmidt, professor of music at Stanford University, will include Renaissance madrigals and selections from opera and contemporary choral music, it was announced. Dorothy Crawford is scheduled to be soprano soloist, while Rafael Ferrer and Anne Chamberlain will accompany the chorus...
...full chorus of 85 singers will present the annual chorus concert on Tuesday, August 13th in Sanders Theatre. Included in the program will be works by Vaughan-Williams, Brahms, and Randall Thompson...
...Another concert scheduled for next week is a piano recital by Luise Vosgerchian. This concert, third in the Summer School series, will be held Monday, August 5th at 8:30 P. M. in Paine Hall. It is open to the public without charge...
...concert stage, Tureck impressed the critics, but U.S. concertgoers, more accustomed to the Bach credentials of Harpsichordists Wanda Landowska and Ralph Kirkpatrick, were left relatively cool. After a poorly attended concert in Manhattan's Town Hall, the New York Times critic demanded: "Must this great artist go to Europe to be recognized by her own country?" In 1953 she did just that, with such success that she returned in 1954 for four months of solid engagements. Her concerts at London's Albert Hall have sold out months in advance. Twice she has packed the huge Festival Hall...
...four lines. Her playing is unhurried, coolly articulated and generously ornamented, has a miraculous clarity that manages to achieve some of the harpsichord's shimmering brilliance along with the piano's plump sound. Tureck believes that it is unfair to perform Bach on the harpsichord in the concert hall. "Its place is not in the concert hall," she says. "What you hear is a click, if you hear anything...