Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAIR. The Public Theater Cast Recording (RCA Victor) and the Broadway Cast Recording (RCA Victor). Last season, off-Broadway's Public Theater presented a tribute to the hyphenated generation with a fullscale, turned-on, freaked-out, pro-love, antiwar, love-rock bein. Billed as an American tribal rock musical, Hair made up in exuberance for what it lacked in finesse. Hitting the Broadway boards via a discotheque, it developed a larger cast of "hippies," a more forced spontaneity, a more self-conscious spirit. Recordings by both casts reflect the differences. The Public Theater cut is not as fully orchestrated...
...BELIEVERS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN SONG (RCA Victor). Sketching the path of the people brought from Africa to America, 13 full-voiced performers of this off-Broadway production lovingly interpret the music that expresses their history. The thunder drums of Ladji Camara provide a lightning introduction to the African chapter. The misery of the slave ships, the dreariness of the plantations, the vitality of the small churches, and the frustrations of city streets are caught in laments, work songs and field hollers, shouting gospels and spirituals, blues and jazz. While the arrangements can be faulted for lack of subtlety...
...Alexander), Bernstein was starting his 1968-69 season with a five-week European tour. At season's end, he ceases to be the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, and plans to de vote most of his time to writing music; his first big project is a new Broadway production based on Brecht's The Exception and the Rule. By virtue of his achievements with the Philharmonic and as composer, author, pianist and TV personality-not to say his new eminence as a 50-year-old-Bernstein is entitled to be called American music's most ar ticulate...