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...album will feature the sounds of the world's largest tuba and an original song written for the band last spring by satirical composer P.D.Q. Bach...
...addition, the record will feature a recent song--entitled "March of the Cute Little Woodsprites"--by Peter Schickele, who composes under the pseudonym P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele is "a longtime friend of the Harvard Band." Band Director Thomas G. Everett explained...
...Californian, independently designed the first practical models. They were ungainly machines, bristling with plugs and wires that looked more at home in a scientist's laboratory than on a stage. In 1968 Wendy Carlos (then Walter, before a sex change) used a Moog for the album Switched-On Bach, a fetching electronic counterfeit that alerted musicians to the instrument's possibilities. Carlos, however, had to synthesize each phrase individually and put the whole thing together on tape, a laborious, time-consuming process. By contrast, today's advanced digital synthesizers, such as the Synclavier and the Fairlight (typical...
...Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor for unaccompanied violin, the piece uses a cast of 36. Cascades of energy flow from couple to couple, wit and finesse point the steps, stretchy phrasing buffets the classical meter. The work not only rewards repeated viewing, but requires it; as usual with Tharp, there are at least two things going on simultaneously, complementing or teasing each other. What can be seen right away is how well she has taken six of A.B.T's best dancers, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Martine van Hamel, Clark Tippet, Magali Messac and Robert...
...ballet that really rang in Tharp's big season was Bach Partita, which American Ballet Theater is performing on its current tour. Despite some radical moves, it is a classical ballet that Petipa would recognize, and as such, it completes Tharp's range as a choreographer. She has nothing more to prove; the challenges now are the ones that she, a master, gives herself...