Word: performable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hours of sounds during the 2½-day event, there was also a surprising proportion of inventive musicality and polished showmanship. Festival Organizers John Phillips, a member of The Mamas and The Papas, and Lou Adler, a Los Angeles record producer, persuaded more than 30 acts to perform without fee, including such high-riding successes as Lou Rawls, Simon and Garfunkel, the Jefferson Airplane, and The Mamas and The Papas. The festival's $430,000 profit from ticket sales and television rights will be distributed "for the cause of music" at the discretion of a board of governors that...
...name for the Viet Cong-are the female Victoria Charlenes, some of whom actually fight. The V.C.'s attractive, much-advertised heroine, Ta Thi Kieu, packs four rifles at a time and boasts that she has participated in 33 battles. The vast majority of the Victoria Charlenes perform the myriad tasks that are needed to aid a guerrilla army operating in a hostile countryside without modern systems of supply, transport or communications...
After the première of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony at the 1902 Krefeld Festival in Germany, one reviewer concluded that "the composer should be shot." The first Vienna performance of Mahler's Fourth drove the audience to such fury that fistfights broke out all over the concert hall. Conductor Hans von Bülow refused to perform Mahler's works because they were "much too strange." In the face of such hostility, Mahler remained stoic. "My time will come," he predicted...
This demonstrates on a grand scale a problem with all musical activity here -- opera, symphony and chamber music alike. In the rush to make his mark on the music scene, the Harvard musician tends to aim high, choosing to perform works guaranteed to get him one up on his fellow musicians and impress the dickens out of the general community. Very often there is more interest in the idea of the thing rather than in obtaining the best musical result. All too often one gets the impression the projects' progenitors had one of those "hey-wouldn't-it-be-fantastic...
...understand how to calculate the common, overlapping interest. Someone must comprehend and be capable of acting on knowledge about where the various pieces of the picture fit together, how they best integrate into the whole coordinated effort. The man who develops an inter-disciplinary, inter-community experience can better perform this function. Ideas must cross-fertilize across arbitrary groupings, and ultimately to communicate those ideas effectively you need to movement, not just words and pieces of paper. When people live in isolation they are in danger of becoming distorted by their own interests, their approach to life may be narrow...