Word: concertizing
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...what you will about the liberties the bond string quartet takes with a piece of classical music, you can't fault its sexually charged performances for being off key. Off color, yes. A bond concert is a melodic lap dance: the four sylphs do energetic things with their orchestral instruments, not to mention their hips, that would compel Stradivari to order an exorcism. One does not learn to straddle a cello that way at a conservatory...
More or less the entire audience’s pre-show chatter was in Hebrew. Many of the seats were filled with pre-teen Israeli girls dressed for a Britney concert, as well as by couples with hair approaching silver who might have been their parents. Harvard students and twenty-somethings dominated, and all were speaking in Hebrew. The composition of the audience reinforced a key question about Geffen’s music: Can it be meaningful if the listener can’t understand the lyrics...
...concert however, it was clear that understanding the individual lyrics is quite different from realizing his songs’ meanings. Through his music and his emotional modulation, Geffen conveyed the fundamental sense of each song. Geffen’s songs have a spirit that transcends linguistic barriers; his recordings hint at this, but in person, this spirit emerges in full force...
...artist has to go through an awkward, halfway stage while he or she crosses the rift between anonymity and fame. A “not unknown, not yet a star” sort of phase. For John Mayer, that point seems to be now. Musically, Mayer’s concert at the Avalon on Feb. 28 was a treat to any fan of his laid-back style and emotion-infused songs. However, between songs, Mayer babbled mostly incoherent phrases that left the audience staring at each other in hopeless confusion. Who was the culprit here? Fame...
Daniel R. Fish ’03, a member of the Harvard Concert Commission, says the introduction of a family element could potentially hurt Springfest...