Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back, Philipp and Walsh went to an Ani DiFranco concert...
...inflation and Penn's tuition rose in concert; in 1981 they parted company. From the 1980-81 school year--when Meyerson retired--to the next, Penn's base tuition increased 15%, to $6,900, far more than the 10.3% boost in the cost of living. The following year the disparity became starker. Penn's tuition rose 16%, 2 1/2 times the slowing rate of inflation and more than three times the growth in median family income...
Such sentimentality does no service to Helfgott--or to music--since it is plainly cruel to parade him before concert audiences. In Boston, on opening night, a devoted fan declared, "This is a tribute to the indomitable human spirit." Her companion's tart reply: "No, it isn't. It's a tribute to greed and the exploitation of someone's handicap." Both were right...
Highlighting the sublime concert was the Academy's ease and grace onstage. From the first notes of tuning heard from backstage to the grand and perfectly controlled performance, small details of the musicians' gestures marked the orchestra as both startlingly elegant and endearing. One had the sense that these performers were not only consummate musicians but also good friends who truly enjoyed the music they were playing--confirmed by the fact that they needed no conductor. They seemed to move and breathe together as a body...
When the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum gives a concert, they know how to do it in style. Their performance last Friday of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, in celebration of their 25th anniversary, was dazzling in every way, from the period instruments to the virtuosic soloists to the outstanding choir itself...