Word: comments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music comment on society? To the extent that electronic sounds suggest the dissonances in everyday life? Perhaps. But, as Italian-born Composer Luciano Beno says, music "cannot lower the cost of bread. It is incapable of stopping wars, it cannot eradicate slums and injustice." Granting that much, Beno, a leading innovator of musical forms, refuses to accept the conventional barriers. He is appalled that composers today seem to regard music as an isolated phenomenon, created in a vacuum for the "greater glory of musical systems."" Never before, he says, "has the composer come so dangerously close to becoming an extraneous...
...work. To him, what counts is man's civilized conscience. His best previous theatrical works-Laborintus, Circles, Passaggio-were promising examples of music as a "social act." At first, he explored opera, since it seemed to him that it offered the best form for social comment. Now he has no use for it. "As a musico-dramatic form, opera is completely useless," he says. In Sinfonia, Berio suggests a new kind of dramaturgy encompassing music, drama, word sounds and, eventually, lighting and stage effects. Other composers have attempted the same thing, but along the way they have lost...
Helmsing asked that the editors of the paper "change their misguided and evil policy" or at the very least "drop the term Catholic from the masthead." Shaken by the denunciation, the NCR initially refused to comment. But the writers criticized by Helmsing were less reticent. Said Callahan: "Whether my statements are heretical is a judgment for the future rather than for the emotional response of one bishop...
Before yesterday's meeting, several professors speculated that the Faculty would act on some of the Dunlop committee's proposals--especially those dealing with elimination of the Instructor post at Harvard. Ford said last night, however, that Dunlop gave only "introductory comments," and that action on the proposals might come in November. Dunlop was not available for comment after the meeting...
...York Times reported yesterday--and the Columbia Daily Spectator confirmed--that Cleaver was slated to speak at Columbia at 4 p.m. An editor of the Spectator said that, as far as he knew, Cleaver would be at Columbia as planned. Neither Cleaver nor his secretary was available for comment yesterday...