Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foremost composer, Pantcho Vladigerov, and made his way to Manhattan's Juilliard School by way of Turkey and Israel. In 1948 he won the prestigious Leventritt award. His career was launched in a blaze of critical superlatives. But over the years, instead of flourishing on the concert circuit, he faded. In 1957 he disappeared from...
...color models, was rejected because it would have required the junking of all black-and-white broadcasting equipment then in existence. Though engineers had been working on long-playing records for years, Goldmark did not try his hand at it until he listened to a recorded Vladimir Horowitz concert and despaired at the periodic clunks of rejecting 78-r.p.m. records-"the most horrible sound man ever made." In 2½ years, he had compressed the playing time for six 78-r.p.m. records into the first 33⅓ microgroove disk and started a multimillion-dollar industry...
...PROGRAM aptly billed it as a "New Rock" concert. Peter Ivers, fresh from New York, has put together a strain of music incorporating jazz and blues with the sugar-coating of a rock-beat to stir our minds a bit, drenched as they are in the winter gloom...
...Wind Ensemble definitely demonstrated that wind music need not be puerile bravado or hideous sentimentality. Their maiden concert allowed the genius of the wind instruments to enjoy full play...
HORROR stories of the grimmest complexion filtered through the week concerning the imminent disintegration of the HRO's impending Beethoven Ninth concert. The Choirs, supposedly stripped of their talents by the reorganization of the Glee Club, were said to be less than protean musicreaders, and in general hopelessly inadequate to the almost insuperable vocal difficulties of Beethoven's masterwork. And so, as I entered the hall I remembered Robert Scott's famous lament at the end of his diary, written as the merciless Antarctic finally buried him: "We took risks; we knew we took them...