Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Attilio Poto, gave its best concert of the season Friday night in Sanders Theatre. The group played with more spirit and cohesion, and was in better tune than usual...
...Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall, and a concert hall into a temple." Eventually, Casals attracted the attention of Spain's Queen Mother, Maria Cristina. who invited him to play and compose at the court. Britain's Queen Victoria soon summoned him to London for a command performance. But his early success gave...
...satirizing the music business. In his cartoons, tubby Artist Hoffnung has created a wonderfully zany world-the bass fiddler peers from behind his instrument through a periscope; an old huge-wheeled bicycle becomes a harp; the phrenetic maestro sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...
...last of the original masters and his wife were the guests of honor at a farewell dinner and concert tendered them by the staff and students of Winthrop House last evening. Master Ronald M. Ferry '12 and Mrs. Ferry will retire this June to a new home in Concord after having headed Winthrop House devotedly ever since its completion...
...Ferrys were festively serenaded during the meal by Renaissance music for brass choir, assisted by the chorus of the House Music Society. After the dinner, the Ferrys and guests heard a concert in the Senior Common Room appropriately given over to a complete performance of Brahms' "Love Song Waltzes," Op. 52, for vocal quartet and piano duet. Before the meal, the Ferrys were guests at two receptions in the House...