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...than the twelve-tone serialism of his 1964 opera Don Rodrigo. Ginastera stacks up thick instrumental clusters, punctuates them with short, stabbing chords, sometimes uses what he calls "clouds," in which orchestra and singers improvise rhythmically suspended, ever-shifting textures. At various points in the piece, the string players clatter their bows on their instruments, the brassmen blow air tonelessly through their mouthpieces, the woodwinds bend notes into piercing quartertones. A 24-voice chorus in the pit sometimes comments on the action or makes weird noises underlining a dramatic moment; during the orgy scene, it sighs, moans, and murmurs...
SURREALISTIC PILLOW (RCA Victor). Jefferson Airplane (i.e., Grace, Paul, Jorma, Jack, Spencer and Marty) takes a trip to the accompaniment of psychedelic clatter and barely audible chatter about blowin' their minds. White Rabbit ("One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small") is an eerie echo of Lewis Carroll's Alice, that mop-haired, pioneering freak-out and her oldtimey, mind-blowing Wonderland. The Airplane likes to blur and disconnect its musical phrases, creating the aural equivalent of double vision...
...Clatter. A dozen Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs highballed down the main line from the northeast and blasted the rail yards, then continued on over Hanoi, bomb racks empty, before wheeling for home. About the same time, some 20 Navy planes swooped in from the southeast, off their carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, to raze the used-car lot; and then headed back without passing over the city...
...imaginative and energetic, but he also began to work off the frustrations of his job in bars at night. Last week he stopped a convoy of trucks near his home with a carbine, rerouting it because, he said, it was making too much noise. The very next night the clatter of a Thompson submachine gun sounded near the Saigon River. Two American MPs headed toward the spot, found Cua in the middle of the street tipsily waving the Thompson...
...undergoing a cultural explosion, much of the noise is being made by the clatter of rising new arts centers. That does not mean, however, that the arts themselves are in step with construction or that audiences are in step with the arts. According to a massive three-year study published last week by the Twentieth Century Fund,* professional performances and audiences constitute a woefully weak link in the chain reaction. Items...