Word: concertizing
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...touring with the Harvard Glee Club, the group traveled to perform in locales where blacks were unwelcome. On one occasion in 1965, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Elliot Forbes ’40 reportedly received bomb threats because of plans for Epps to participate in a Birmingham, Ala., concert. Epps was “quietly, deeply upset” when the Glee Club performed without him at the show, Glee Club Secretary William White ’65 said at the time...
Some kids dream about being in a rock band. Dave Grohl dreamed of being in every rock band. "As a kid, my fantasy was that I would go to a concert, any concert, and something would happen to the drummer," says Grohl, 34. "The lead singer would look out into the audience and say, 'Is there anyone out there who knows how to play our songs?' And, of course, they'd have to pick...
...confined to a pink ghetto, though. There's a lively disco at Centro, opposite the venerable Fullerton hotel, that stages a gay event on Sunday nights just a short walk from the High Court. On the same night, the nearby Embassy Club, part of the new Esplanade concert hall complex, hosts another...
...really dangerous." For a pointless act, mobs have created a fair amount of serious analysis. Howard Rheingold, author of a 2002 book called Smart Mobs, thinks mobs are the newest form of social protest. "Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other," writes Rheingold. Smart mobs have, he says, done things like help topple Philippine President Joseph Estrada. Do flash mobs have similar aspirations? Not according to Bill. "I'm a political person," he says. "I do engage in protests, and I don't see this...
...destruction of a landmark. It exists in the wondrous possibility that your super is in the mafia, the cast of “Sex and the City” is shooting on your corner and the next guy you meet at a party is a world-class concert pianist...