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...Words to clap hands by in a Negro church on Sunday night? Not really. They just happen to be the stuff of the nation's No. 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Composed, arranged and conducted by Edwin Hawkins, the 25-year-old son of an Oakland, Calif., long shoreman, Oh Happy Day is far and away the surprise hit of the year. From Los Angeles to Boston, its bubbling, infectious sound is being aired ten to 20 times a day on Negro rhythm-and-blues stations, easy-listening stations, even rock stations. The LP from which...
...called Eonta (which means "beings" in Greek) three trombonists and two trumpeters march to and fro about the stage while a pianist flays wildly away at the keyboard. In Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world première of Nomos Gamma at France's Royan Festival next month. Perhaps his most extraordinary composition is Strat...
...something that had once made me laugh. Here was one more thing that was no longer a positive experience for me. Just as seeing the Indians get slaughtered by the Cavalry is no longer something I clap...
...like losing part of your childhood by negating it. You can feel proud of yourself that you're mature enough or sensitive enough so you don't find it amusing to see someone humiliate himself for a laugh. Maybe you can feel proud that you get indignant when others clap gleefully for two midget wrestlers who are making fools of themselves for money. But somehow it's kind of a drag not to be able to laugh...
...memorial program on the assassination of "Miss America" host Bert Parks, an unmentionable comment on Jerry Lewis and muscular-distrophy charity campaigns, a hip black guy who insists on being referred to as "colored" and who hates James Brown, a television writer who dreams up the show "Clap City: the continuing story of a gonorrhea epidemic...