Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Violinist Max Polikoff, who felt that the public was starved for new music and that contemporary composers deserved a wider hearing ("Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music"). With the aid of Manhattan Y.M.H.A. Education Director William Kolodney, Polikoff set up an eight-concert Sunday-afternoon series on modern music with a minimal $5 subscription fee, attracted enthusiastic audiences to the Y.M.H.A.'s Kaufmann Auditorium. This season the series has expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although Polikoff has scheduled more American than foreign works, this week...
...concert concluded with Mozart's D-minor Piano Concerto, K. 466, surely his finest contribution to the medium. This is a work of tragic import, until the last pages of the rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered...
...more than capacity audience called conductor and soloist back six times. It was indeed a concert of professional quality, and as fine an evening of student orchestral playing as I have heard in Cambridge over many years...
...symposium, March 18, at 8 p.m., and the concert, March 17 at 8:30 p.m., will both be open to the public. There will also be a formal dance and House dinner for House members only...
Leverett House will mark its 25th anniversary with a four-day celebration March 16 through 19. The program will include a symposium on "The University and the Public Life," and a concert by the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, conducted by Daniel R. Pinkham...