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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...
...draft drama with a bit more panache. Sporting marigolds and sparking mischief, a group of 50-mostly students from nearby Antioch College-gathered in front of the main post office to protest the impending induction of James R. Wessner, 22, grandson-in-law of Cleveland Industrialist and Russophile Cyrus Eaton. Wessner was clad in a black Halloween "death" costume and toted a scythe-a grim tableau that found an almost exact duplicate in Des Moines. Nine young men turned in their draft cards in Cincinnati, after dipping them in a cup full of blood contributed by two Antioch students. When...
...WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Filmed at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, "Rhino" recounts the capture of two rare white rhinos and other veld-roaming wild beasts in danger of extinction. Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton and Robert Gulp star...
...Eaton Yale & Towne...