Word: concert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danieli, Tanzanian Ambassador to the U.N. Married secretly about a month ago in Washington, D.C., the couple canceled their plans for a mammoth reception because of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. Now the newlyweds have little time for honeymooning. Miriam went to South America for a monthlong concert tour; Stokely holed up in Washington and let the world know that Black Power machinations and marriage were not mutually exclusive pursuits. "My wife," he said, "has already been a freedom fighter...
...concert engagements, he arranged to be carried down the aisle of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall on a stretcher borne by two men in white coats. His compositions include the "Unbegun" Symphony, which has only a third and fourth movement. As a concert commentator, he is the leading exponent of the sportscaster style ("The brasses are taking the theme and running ahead! Folks, this piece is definitely going to go into over time!"). His great contribution to musicology is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless...
...spends most of his time these days in a 22-room Hollywood mansion that serves as his home, corporate headquarters, "crash pad" for friends in need, and raucous rehearsal hall for clients and colleagues. Self-possessed amidst the noise and confusion, he still manages to get to his Yamaha concert grand or his electric organ to work on new music, sometimes with incredible facility (he wrote Up, Up and Away in 35 minutes). In fact, in addition to a plethora of pop projects (including a score for an original film musical), he is branching out to tackle a rock symphony...
When Composer-Pianist John Eaton, 33, began to play his Concert Piece for Syn-Ket and Symphony Orchestra, the audience quickly discovered that there was nothing childish about the instrument. Syn-Ket is the first machine capable of performing electronic music "live" in the concert hall. Like the various sound synthesizers that have preceded it, Syn-Ket can approximate known instrumental and noninstrumental sounds-and create a few that are not so well known. It does not have all the range and flexibility of those synthesizers, but it does have one advantage. They normally put their sounds onto tape, which...
Just how useful this can be was demonstrated by the easy, give-and-take, concertolike dialogue between orchestra and Syn-Ket. With the orchestra divided into two sections tuned a quarter tone apart, Eaton's Concert Piece was able to achieve a dense, microtonal fabric of sound that would have made even Charles Ives envious. Though the Syn-Ket started out with the familiar blips, snaps and bee-swarming sounds usually associated with electronic music, it soon proved its special if not necessarily pleasing power with waves of organ-rich tones and descending spirals of patterned trills. "This...