This page lists 49 cultural events I attended in 1966. Movies are listed on my films page, not here. The program index page displays thumbnails of all the printed program images. Cities are in California, except as noted.
This list was reconstructed ex post facto in 2016 from old datebooks. I was a Harvard sophomore at the start of 1966. I spent the summer in Europe, traveling with my mother in England, Germany and Austria, then trying to learn French in France. Then I returned to Harvard for the start of junior year.
I started keeping event data in the format used by this page in 2010, so data from 2010 to date is accurate. I started keeping appointment calendar data in .txt format in August 2005. I later extracted 2005-2009 event data ex post facto, so data for 2005 to 2009 is less complete and a bit less accurate. I have older pocket calendars and hard copies of event programs going back to 1963, but I have not yet scanned programs for years before 2010 or entered event data for most years before 2005.
See also: 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1971 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 All
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Date | Category | Description | Performers | Venue | City | Works | ||||
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06/19/66 @ 19:00 | Opera | Turandot | Deutsche Oper | Deutsche Oper | Berlin | Puccini: Turandot | ||||
06/18/66 @ 20:00 | Theater | Die Party | Forum-Theater | Berlin | Lind: Die Party | |||||
12/15/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | Armstrong's Last Goodnight | Theater Co. of Boston | Boston MA | Arden: Armstrong's Last Goodnight | |||||
10/09/66 | Recital | Stern/Istomin/Rose | Isaac Stern, violin Eugene Istomin, viola Leonard Rose, cello |
Boston MA | ||||||
11/10/66 @ 20:00 | Theater | Marat/Sade | Theater Co. of Boston | Boston MA | Weiss: Marat/Sade | |||||
11/11/66 @ 20:00 | Recital | Julian Bream | Julian Bream, guitar | Jordan Hall | Boston MA | |||||
03/10/66 @ 19:30 | Rehearsal | Boston Symphony | Berj Zamcochian, organ Charles Munch, conductor |
Symphony Hall | Boston MA | Elgar: Introduction and Allegro Martinu: Symphony No. 6 Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 2 'Organ' |
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01/20/66 @ 19:30 | Rehearsal | Boston Symphony | Jean Martinon, conductor | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | Martinon: Overture for a Greek Tragedy Hindemith: Konzertmusik for strings and brass Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' |
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02/24/66 @ 19:30 | Rehearsal | Boston Symphony | Erich Leinsdorf, conductor | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust | ||||
10/23/66 @ 15:00 | Concert | Detroit Symphony | Detroit Symphony | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | |||||
02/13/66 @ 15:00 | Recital | Isaac Stern | Isaac Stern, violin | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | |||||
04/21/66 @ 19:30 | Rehearsal | Boston Symphony | Boston Symphony | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | |||||
02/16/66 @ 20:30 | Concert | Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell, conductor | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | |||||
02/03/66 @ 19:30 | Rehearsal | Boston Symphony | Malcolm Frager, piano Erich Leinsdorf, conductor |
Symphony Hall | Boston MA | Vivaldi: L'Estro armonico Op. 3 No. 10 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 |
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11/04/66 @ 20:30 | Recital | Emile Gilels | Emile Gilels, piano | Symphony Hall | Boston MA | |||||
04/29/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | Iolanthe | Agassiz | Cambridge MA | Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe | |||||
04/26/66 | Recital | E. Power Biggs | E. Power Biggs, organ | Busch Reisinger | Cambridge MA | |||||
04/02/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | L'histoire du soldat | Loeb | Cambridge MA | Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat | |||||
03/24/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | L'histoire du soldat | Loeb | Cambridge MA | Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat | |||||
11/28/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | Nathan der Weise | Loeb | Cambridge MA | Lessing: Nathan der Weise | |||||
03/24/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | Trouble in Tahiti | Loeb | Cambridge MA | Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti | |||||
04/02/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | Trouble in Tahiti | Loeb | Cambridge MA | Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti | |||||
04/16/66 @ 20:00 | Theater | A Long Day's Journey into Night | Loeb | Cambridge MA | O'Neill: A Long Day's Journey into Night | |||||
05/07/66 | Opera | The Turn of the Screw | Lowell | Cambridge MA | Britten: The Turn of the Screw | |||||
03/04/66 | Concert | Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra | James Yannatos, conductor | Sanders | Cambridge MA | |||||
03/12/66 | Concert | Harvard Bach Society | Harvard Bach Society | Sanders | Cambridge MA | |||||
05/13/66 | Concert | Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra | James Yannatos, conductor | Sanders | Cambridge MA | |||||
10/22/66 @ 14:00 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Dartmouth | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
10/22/66 @ 13:30 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Penn | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
10/01/66 @ 14:00 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Tufts | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
10/15/66 @ 14:00 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Cornell | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
10/08/66 @ 14:00 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Columbia | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
11/12/66 @ 13:30 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Yale | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
09/24/66 @ 14:00 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Lafayette | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
11/12/66 @ 13:30 | Sports | Harvard football | Harvard vs. Brown | Soldier's Field | Cambridge MA | |||||
02/18/66 | Concert | Play of Daniel | New York Pro Musica | St. Paul's | Cambridge MA | The Play of Daniel | ||||
09/10/66 | Theater | You Never Can Tell | London | Shaw: You Never Can Tell | ||||||
06/17/66 @ 20:00 | Theater | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Leister Sq. | London | Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | |||||
06/13/66 @ 19:30 | Theater | Robert & Elizabeth | Lyric | London | Millar: Robert and Elizabeth | |||||
06/14/66 @ 20:30 | Theater | Beyond the Fringe | Mayfair | London | ||||||
06/16/66 @ 20:00 | Theater | Barefoot in the Park | Picadilly | London | Simon: Barefoot in the Park | |||||
09/09/66 @ 19:30 | Concert | Proms concert | London Symphony Orchestra Steven Kovacevich, piano Colin Davis, conductor |
Royal Albert Hall | London | Haydn: Symphony No. 103 'Drumroll' Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique |
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06/15/66 @ 20:00 | Recital | Sviatoslav Richter | Sviatoslav Richter, piano | Royal Festival | London | Program | Schubert: Sonata in B, D. 575 Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Liszt: Sonata in b minor |
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04/22/66 | Theater | The Visit | Tufts | Medford MA | Dürrenmatt: The Visit | |||||
10/22/66 | Concert | Ian and Sylvia | Ian and Sylvia | Tufts | Medford MA | |||||
01/01/66 | Theater | Brave New Workshop | Brave New Workshop | Minneapolis MN | ||||||
09/17/66 @ 20:00 | Theater | The Skin of Our Teeth | Guthrie | Guthrie | Minneapolis MN | Wilder: The Skin of Our Teeth | ||||
09/02/66 @ 20:45 | Opera | The Barber of Seville | Opera Comique | Opera Comique | Paris | Rossini: The Barber of Seville | ||||
09/07/66 @ 14:00 | Theater | Henry V | Royal Shakespeare Co. | Stratford | Shakespeare: Henry V |