Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: COMPLETE PI ANO MUSIC (2 LPs; CBS). This set is worth acquiring as much for Stockhausen's notes on the album cover as for the music itself. Not that the composer writes revealingly about his art ("All the Piano Pieces V-X are characterized by groups of notes around nuclear notes, occurring before, with or after them."). Instead, he spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent...
...With every album since Rubber Soul, the Beatles have been approaching an all-encompassing pop-music nirvana. Pray that they make it before old age and the Establishment catch up with them...
...rapidly approaching the age when a person usually turns to more conservative music. But I still feel pop music! Shunned by my girl for keeping beat with the album, I seek reassurance that Sgt. Pepper is one of the greatest sounds ever recorded. Thanks for your finely written support...
...host of NBC's high-rating annual Ice Follies show and as Ferrovius in a Richard Rodgers musical adaptation of Androcles and the Lion. There are offers to appear with a Utah Shakespeare company and the Santa Fe Opera, and RCA Victor is preparing a new record album called Christmas with Ed Ames...
...trouble following the recipe. Unaccustomed to ad-libbing, they had to be cajoled by John and Paul, who threaded among the musicians, urging them to play at different tempos and to please try not to stay together. Partly as a result of filling that "gap," the Sgt. Pepper album cost three months of work and $56,000 -which is about as much as it costs to record five albums for London's New Philharmonia Orchestra...