Word: barococo
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...quite so. If writers had the final play on words, it was Prince who enjoyed the ultimate word on plays. He discovered what came to be the show's essential conception in Eliot Elisofon's picture of Gloria Swanson amid the ruins of Manhattan's Roxy Theater, a barococo movie palace that was demolished in 1960. "That sparked the whole notion of rubble?how it relates to the past and present." Prince set Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who collaborated with him on Forum and Company, to work emulating typical mid-'20s and '30s show tunes for the "Loveland" sequence...
...last week, that injunction served to introduce Classical Disk Jockey Seymour De Koven, an evangelist of the baroque, a man dedicated to the proposition that scarcely any music worth listening to was written after 1828, the year Schubert died. After him, practically no composers were able to write decent "barococo" music, and the public had to settle for "nobodies like Berlioz and Brahms." Today, a segment of the public has also settled, quite happily, for De Koven. A self-appointed authority of magnificent self-assurance ("All FM has improved because of my blustering, bullying dogmatism"), he has built a radio...
...broadcast over WNYC, a municipally owned and supported station). De Koven has resolutely banished all commercial sponsors, buys all the records he uses. He claims-and so far no one has felt the urge to challenge him -that he plays more baroque and rococo music (hence his coinage-"barococo") than any other disk jockey in the world...
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