The band quickly took off, and she never finished her composition degree, but she did not abandon the world of classical music — or, more accurately, she built a world of her own, large enough to encompass both classical music and everything else that interested her, exemplified by Society of New Music, the genre-less concert evenings she used to put on at a derelict pub near the Guildhall.
It was less a concert than an indulgent lark, or a total miscalculation.
It is less a "concert hall" than a large rectangular room.
This was less a concert — the vocals appeared to be recorded — than a Las Vegas-style revue of intimidating complexity.
Although music may seem the dominant element, with five bands or D.J.'s scheduled each day, Warm Up is less a concert series than a street fair without the street.
This made for a night that was less a concert than a metamorphosis, the band shifting through phases from flustered and making do to slick and professional as, over the course of the evening, fortune swung back its way.
To offer less formal concert experiences, smaller or more adjustable performance spaces have been designed, like the Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Los Angeles Music Center, the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center's new stage in the Time Warner Center.
| July 21 at 8 30: Hans Graf takes the helm this time, conducting the "Leonore" Overture No. 2, the Triple Concerto (with the men of the Beaux Arts Trio, no less), the concert aria "Ah Perfidoo" (with Brewer returning), and the jaunty Symphony No. 2 in D Major.
Some become so deeply integrated into a festival's infrastructure — at Lollapalooza in Chicago, for example, stages are named after Budweiser, Adidas, Sony — that fans can be left with the strange feeling that the event is less a concert than a living, three-dimensional advertisement.
One person who will have appreciated it will have been Pierre Boulez, there to hear his shimmering Mémoriale for flute and chamber ensemble, which served as opener, and adding to the impression that this was less a concert than the preamble to a meeting of music's elder statesmen.
The United States and China had just resumed diplomatic relations, and on his arrival with his family and the American pianist David Golub in June, Stern announced that the trip was less a concert tour than a "how do you do?" — using music as a kind of passport to meet the Chinese people.
