Word: concertedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert begins with a romantic oddity. Brahms was well-known as a composer of symphonies andlieder, it came as a shock to the German people when they heard a medley of their university songs composed by a master. Jarvi conducted the Academic Festival Overture, written after Brahms received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in 1880, with zest and oomph...
Jarvi, in obvious empathy with the spirit of the music, drew clear phrases from the orchestra and called for a delicate balance between themes and their repetitions. The composer, whose 75th birthday is commemorated by this concert. made an appearance on stage with Jarvi, and the audience gave them and the orchestra a prolonged ovation...
Even more tragically, the concert notes--like most other concert notes and record jackets-- include an inappropriate description by Shostakovich of the finale...
...world is deteriorating morally, and if there is a chance of doing something beautiful, I want to do it," said Singer Joan Baez of her determination to give a Christmas Eve concert in front of Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame. But doing something très belle can be très difficile in France, Baez found. To arrange her hour-long concert, to be attended by 50,000 and televised on both sides of the Atlantic, she spent four years negotiating with Paris' city hall, archdiocese and police. "In the end they were genuinely excited about...
...Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television. Said Conductor Margaret Hillis to an earnest cast, as an all-volunteer, 100-piece orchestra (aged twelve to 74) tuned up: "Handel would be delighted." And suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude. In New York City, Pop Singer Toni Tennille joined the La Guardia Community...