Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Two Ballet Birds" are the musical scores of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and excerpts from The Fire bird Suite by Stravinsky...
Dylan himself was pleased by the concert. He came away from the concert feeling strong enough for a full-scale comeback in the U.S. Already he has announced a touring show with The Band, the superb Canadian country-rock group that backed him at Wight. "I want to try it again," he says. "It's what I do. It's my work." But clearly he will do it his way. Not playing up to the applause or offering flowery speeches about "how wonderful it is to be here." It is, in fact, not only Dylan...
...electronic idiom. To them, composition means either recording real-life sounds on tape and then transforming them electronically (musique concrete), or starting from scratch with an electronic sound synthesizer like the Moog (TIME, March 7). Electronic composers "write" on tape; their music was never intended for the traditional concert hall. "The trouble with the concert hall," says California's electronic composer Morton Subotnick, "is that it requires a social and theatrical esthetic that really has nothing to do with our music." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who today works primarily in the electronic idiom, agrees: "I make everything...
...This week Sinfonia comes out on a superbly engineered Columbia LP. Even though Berio conducted the premiere, he believes that the LP release will probably be a more satisfying event. From a purely esthetic point of view, the work will be clearer and more forceful than any concert-hall performance so far. A concert, moreover, is heard today and gone tomorrow. But the LP Sinfonia will be sold, perhaps for years, all over the world...
...California-bound business executive walked into a branch of the First National City Bank in Manhattan last week and picked up a pair of tickets for a Hollywood Bowl concert. A Manhattan-bound Angeleno bought tickets for the Broadway hit Oh! Calcutta! at a Beverly Hills hotel. Both made their purchases through computer networks that are striving to bring the box office closer to the increasingly choosy buyer...