Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLMES HALL concert of students compositions was held in an unpretentious atmosphere as players simply performed the works without recourse to program notes or composer apologias. And there was an intermission, presumably for ventilation, since the room was stifling with a midsummer night heat. I went to the concert expecting to be neither electrified, moved, outraged, nor jaded...
Last weekend featured some better than average, though not awe-inspiring meals, an outdoor concert, and some cartoons in the courtyard. The concert irked some people who felt the academic atmosphere was jeopardized, perhaps shattered. For the most part, however, reaction was encouraging and many people took advantage of the offerings...
...more of the same. Friday night: a dance held under a circus tent featuring two New York soul bands a light show, and go-go girls (one of whom fell from her rather shaky platform and threatened to sue the committee for negligence). Saturday evening: a concert by the Lovin' Spoonful followed by 2 a.m. parietals to allow for private dorm parties. For Saturday afternoon, the committee rented an entire island in Boston harbor. Party boats ran continually to shuttle celebrants to what was once an old Civil War prison. The outdoor barbecue; free sandwiches and mixer, the large open...
...structured to allow more free time for the individual. Spring 1969 may not be a semester marked by a plethora of student festivities, but Jubilee will be no less grand. The island proved so successful that the event is being repeated. Friday evening, Richie Havens will perform in concert at Cambridge Latin. The following evening, the committee has scheduled a dance featuring Cliff Nobles and the Listening at which free mixer will be available. A Road Runner cartoon festival, special Union meals, and a Sunday concert by Harvard's own venerable singing institution, the Krockodillos, will round out the event...
...plots are hatched); four slightly motley looking freshmen had just returned from the Elise's run. At dinner they had groaned at the Jubilee opening skit and pushed their potatoes around on their trays when it finally came out that the Lovin Spoonful were going to play the main concert for the big spring affair...