Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also under construction is an ambitious cultural center that will contain a 10,000-volume library, a concert hall for 1,200, two 250-seat movie theaters and even a discothèque. Already scheduled are performances by the Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies and by the Beryozhka folk dancers. One bit of bad news for devotees of the high life: there will be no beer halls like the popular one in Montreal...
UCAN is also planning to sponsor an alternative energy fair, rally, and concert in cooperation with student anti-nuclear groups this fall, Dottie Lewis, business manager for the Psychology and Social Relations Department and one of the organizers of the group, said yesterday...
Marley is a small thin man against the background of a huge soundstage, but from the first moment he, his two-and-a-half foot dread locks and his dozen-or-so band members walk on stage, 15-20 thousand people focus on him. The concert is billed as a festival of unity, and at this first moment Marley and his crew seem to be successful. All eyes see a man who is both a genius and so stoned he seems about ready to fall over. He sings "Rastaman Vibration." The audience, which was seated until Marley walked on stage...
...police, although there were some present. It was controlled by the "People's Security". They were dressed in black pants and red shirts with a fist on the back. Some wore berets or military fatigue hats. They were like South American guerillas, but badly organized. The gates to the concert were opened later than even the organizers expected, causing a massive pileup of people who arrived early hoping to get the best of the general admission seats. "People's Security" was much better at protecting Marley...
Marley was once shot and wounded for his political activity in Jamaica. Consequently, at this concert everyone was checked by a metal detector on entering the stadium. Fifty security men surrounded Marley as they escorted him to and from his post-performance press conference. When Marley is on stage, there is unity, but when he is offstage there is fear. When he starts playing, he is bigger than life, when he stops he is again vulnerable, and those around him seem to know this. There is a customary search before many rock concerts, but at Marley's the search...