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Unlike earlier music programs for children, this one does not toe the classical line. In an allegro collage that threatens the viewer with musical vertigo, the initial program arcs from the Beach Boys to Beethoven, Indian sitar music to music of the Renaissance, the Vienna Boys Choir to the Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans. In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What...
Earlier, as the Pontiff entered St. Peter's Basilica, borne on a swaying chair, a choir of 10,000 voices performed. TV arc lights played across the colors of African robes and Asian pantaloons in the packed congregation. Paul sought no assistance as he rose from the papal throne and lifted the host and chalice. But his hands trembled visibly and he walked to the altar with a slow, painful shuffle caused by his arthritis. To symbolize his years, Paul personally gave Communion to 80 people...
That's not all that looks promising for Bach Soc this week; the group is also performing Vaughan William's "Serenade to Music" with the Harvard University Choir. Last year, Bach Soc did RVW's "Lark Ascending," which was beautifully done. The piece for this concert should be well worth hearing, so don't miss it. Bach Soc has demonstrated that it's able to pull off a program combining German baroque and English pastoral or Russian schmalz very well...
...recordings went nowhere, stuck in Nashville's syrupy strings-and-choir arrangements. Though he was living well on sizable composing royalties, Nelson left Nashville in 1972 when his house burned down and he retreated to a ranch on the edge of Austin. Says he: "The University of Texas was there, and I had an idea that the young people was really goin' to like country music. They were havin' a rough time findin' it sometimes; they were afraid to go to some of the places where hippies might not be welcome...
...abolition of all exclusivity, whether its purpose is malign or not. Exclusive societies of professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers) exist for perfectly decent reasons. And certain groupings of artists for different decent aims. Yet, federal funds were briefly withheld from a Connecticut school on the ground that its boys' choir, by existing, encouraged sexist discrimination-and never mind the unique musical reasons why boys have always been assembled into singing groups. Government bureaucrats looked ridiculous in that instance because of their failure to admit a common-sense truth: some exclusivity-by race, sex, color and creed as well...