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Park's singleminded crusade has struck a chord of sympathy in both Japan and South Korea. About 500,000 South Koreans have formed an organization to campaign for the repatriation of their countrymen; Seoul now beams a radio program to the Sakhalinese Koreans with messages and greetings from relatives and friends at home. In Japan a similar association was formed by suburban Tokyo Housewife Rei Mihara...
...shouting comes from Patti Smith, 29, an intriguing newcomer on the rock-music scene whose first album, Horses (Arista), has been climbing fast since its release in November. A few months ago, she was just another aspiring singer on Manhattan's underground nightspot circuit. Grafted to primitive three-chord rock, Smith's raw soprano and often menacing lyrics emerge in an effect that is curiously vulnerable. With her fame spreading almost as suddenly as the sales of her album, some music executives see Smith as a potential Janis Joplin. Bob Dylan has paid a benedictory visit...
...gives me such a sense of power," as they did in an early 40s Helen Hokinson; that a young woman might peek into a mirror and say to her reflection "Boo! You pretty creature" as in a late 20s Peter Arno; or that these situations might strike a responsive chord in any of our lives...
...Iowa. The avant-garde composition began "as an English dance rhapsody and developed into a symphony more or less against my will," explained Burgess. Its finale is "corny, full of schmalz, with a mandolin tinkling away in the background," and at the end "the orchestra plays a single fortissimo chord of C major and everybody goes off for a drink." The music's mystery may be rooted in its unusual creation. Burgess, 58, wrote at least half of his symphony while on a lecture tour of the U.S. earlier this year. "The score was sent to [Conductor] James Dixon...
...what is the most important achievement of this book, Rosen reveals the manner in which non-tonal music can supply both tension and the release of tension that many have criticized Schoenberg for destroying. "The saturation of musical space is Schoenberg's substitute for the tonic chord of the traditional musical language. The absolute consonance is a state of chromatic plenitude." As Rosen points out, Ewartung, one of Schoenberg's early works, ends with all the instruments of the orchestra playing accelerating chromatic scales up and down until a "state of chromatic plenitude" has been created. This state, according...