Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From my point of view as a music major, Bertram Baldwin's review of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert was based on a cruelly high standard; a standard which an amateur orchestra, which, after all, is what the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is, cannot reasonably be expected to live...
Considering the concert as a whole, I feel that Mr. Baldwin was far too severe: certainly the Debussy at least was not "musically unacceptable"--and it was performed after a minimum of rehearsal time. The Brahms, also, was not without merit: the piece is fiendishly difficult, with great rhythmic complexities and breathtaking high divisi passages in the strings which, except for some raggedness, came out with surprisingly good intonation; and the sudden rests, traps for any amateur orchestra, were for once clearly defined--which does not seem to indicate "imprecision" in Mr. Poto. I thought that the Brahms...
...YORK FLUTE CLUB was founded in 1920 by the late great Flutist Georges Barrere, regularly attracts some 150 loyal flute lovers to its Sunday afternoon concerts at Carl Fischer Hall. At each concert a different well-known flutist is invited to perform, either solo or in chamber-music ensembles, e.g., last week Claude Monteux, son of the conductor, accompanied by Composer Henry Brant at the piano, in a program of new and traditional works, including Milhaud's Sonatine, a Haydn Sonata in G and Brant's own Partita in C. Why there should be such a persistent demand...
...simply because they did not want to bring wives and children into a cultural desert, Rockefeller and his associates set out to match Arkansas' industrial revolution with a cultural revolution. They scurried all over the state, sparked community playhouses, libraries, symphony orchestras, opera, even established a commission-sponsored Concert Hall of the Air to broadcast classical music. After losing out on a $100 million Glenn Martin guided-missiles plant because Arkansas lacked technical schools to provide advanced training for workers, the commission began agitating for a graduate school of technology at the University of Arkansas. Result: the senate...
...concert given by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders last Friday night was disappointing. The only part of the program that was musically acceptable was Frances Steiner's playing of the Saint-Saens Violoncello Concerto, Opus 55. Her tone was usually warm and clear, and the technically difficult passages were executed with a degree of ease. Unfortunately, soloist and orchestra did not always pay sufficient attention to each other...