These parts were intense and interactive, almost little stand-alone concerts themselves.
People in Britain seem more engaged in classical concerts, and the concerts themselves are cheaper than in America.
The fact that parents see concerts as venues for family fun, sometimes even for very young children, also, of course, speaks much about the transformation of concerts themselves.
Participants are lavish in their praise of the Marlboro process; good-natured griping concerned the lack of real Vermont maple syrup in the kitchen and the need for performers to purchase CDs of their concerts themselves.
In January, in response to criticism occasioned by the orchestra's trademark New Year's concerts, themselves born of the Nazi era, the Philharmonic promised a thorough review of its activities during World War II and shortly before and after.
But it chooses to, and the concerts themselves -- swift, celebrity filled, ending early to leave time for the party afterward -- can surprisingly be among the best of the season.
Zacharias emphasizes the significance of concerts themselves: I know what I want to hear, but the excitement of a concert, that carries you to give just a little bit more, to dare a little more — of course, it can also be depressing if there's an audience that coughs their way through or is showing, "This is too much for us".
CHARLES ISHERWOOD Rock: Not Out of the Pool Yet When the McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, winds down its summer of concerts over the next few weeks, which will be more missed: the concerts themselves — first-rate, even historic shows by Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Feist and TV on the Radio — or the Slip 'n Slide?
The DVD received similar mixed reviews to the concerts themselves.
Hutcherson, always the joker in the crowd, attributed that to factors other than the concerts themselves.
