Word: flamenco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musician, Williams is eclectic, spoofing and sponging from every bag. Classical Gas is, as he says, "part flamenco, part Flatt & Scruggs, part classical." It is written for six-and twelve-string guitars and a symphony orchestra of 37 pieces, but the result manages to preserve a certain purity. His Reading Matter is even plainer. Take, for example, his ode to the network censor, who, Williams writes...
...clothes and climbs into a bathtub brimming with Calgon bath oil. The Dash soap man butts into conversations and flings laundry at innocent people. "Louise Hexter," he commands, "start wearing cleaner blouses!" The shaming, the touch of half-suppressed hysteria, is unsettling. Another instance of the absurd involves the flamenco dancer who stomps the living daylights out of a Bic ballpoint pen that has been attached to his heel. Here the effect is different. One remembers all the other similar nonsense the pen that writes under water, the watch that survives a trip on the rudder of an ocean liner...
...commissioned dances in its repertory. Still another inventive company is the one founded by Mexican-born José Limón, whose choreography-as in The Winged, an hour-long evocation of birds in all their variety-blends the psychological expressiveness of Martha Graham and the fiery intensity of flamenco...
AMIDST the general bungling, Ciro's choreography gave the Gypsy Song tremendous vitality, and his flamenco solo at the beginning of Act Four stopped the show. The staging, by Sarah Caldwell, was always competent and occasionally inventive, as when Carmen threw her Tarot deck into the air at the end of Act Three. And Marilyn Horne played Carmen...
...breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...