Word: baez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yellow River Concerto in Peking last September, Conductor Eugene Ormandy signaled for the composer to share the bows. Out came two men and two women. To a Westerner listening to the work, the four might just as well have been Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Cécile Chaminade and Joan Baez. Actually, they were a committee from the Central Philharmonic Society of the People's Republic of China, perhaps the country's foremost composer. The event was the highlight of the Philadelphia's tour of China, the first such by an American orchestra. The moment is now recalled...
...those of us who first grasped for maturity during the decade past, a Dylan concert is a three-hour detour through deja vu. Like images on Plato's cave, Clearasil coeds with Joan Baez hair and men silently hunkered inside thick pea jackets appear and quickly pass- yesterday's graduate students, now headed toward paunch or pregnancy. Dylan concerts draw people who inhabited the fringes of campus teach-ins, rode Mississippi freedom buses and marched down endless University Avenues searching for an end to the draft...
...generation of activists grew apathetic: the old spirit of Dylan and Joan Baez seemed to have evaporated. The stage was taken over by a capering rearguard of glitter rockers, demonists and hip vaudevillians...
Fancy cars and duds are Stewart's own contribution to his image, although he resents criticism of his indulgences ("Joan Baez shows up at concerts in jeans and sandals-the only difference between her and me is that I own up to the money"). Other aspects of his image please him less, like never being allowed to be seen in public drinking anything as mild as a beer. "It's funny, because people think I'm drunk when I go onstage. But my musicians and I can't destroy the myth, so we act drunk...
Divorced. Joan Baez, 32, folk singer and veteran antiwar activist; and David Harris, 27, who recently served 20 months in a federal penitentiary for refusing induction into the Army in 1968; after five years of marriage and one son; in Redwood City, Calif...