Word: benders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, implausibly, the elf turned 75. To mark the occasion, there was a series of performances of his music (highlighted the week before when the Philadelphia Orchestra played Three Pictures for Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York). There was also a conversation with TIME Music Critic William Bender which, although it did not last until four in the morning, showed that Thomson has lost none of the old Virgilian knack...
WHEN I was a choirboy at St. James' Episcopal Church in New York," says TIME Music Critic Bill Bender, "the last thing I expected to see was a Broadway musical based on the life of Jesus Christ - much less a rock opera." But as Jesus Christ Superstar began its evolution from record album to stage spectacle, Bender recognized its importance early on. Lyricist Tim Rice and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber were putting the finishing touches on Superstar in London when Bender mentioned the imminent debut of the opera in our Jan. 12, 1970 cover story on The Band...
...cover story on the show's Broadway opening is more than a critique of the music or the musical. We report on the production's development, the principals responsible for it and the show's impact on Broadway and beyond. The story, written by Bender and Senior Editor Timothy Foote, also discusses the darts and laurels that Superstar is attracting; to these we add some...
...cover all facets of Superstar in words and pictures required a large cast of journalists. Bender and Reporter-Researcher Patsy Beckert interviewed Rice and Lloyd Webber, attended preview and premier performances, reviewed the merits of the show with the notables at the opening-night cast party. Show Business Correspondent Mary Cronin, who saw the production four times, obtained much of the background material for the story in two weeks of intensive interviewing. Jay Cocks, a movie critic who occasionally patrols Broadway as well, wrote a separate profile on Superstar's director, Tom (Hair) O'Horgan. Foote prepared...
...young (TIME, Feb. 22). He also intends to devote two series of programs to the music of Liszt and Berg, both of whom he feels are essential to the understanding of contemporary music. Beyond that, the new director will talk controversially on various subjects, as TIME Music Critic William Bender discovered in an interview last week...