Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broken Glass. Brown favors what he calls "open form" music. Last week he displayed his style at a concert at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. One of the works on the program, Available Forms I, which is scored for 18 wind, string and percussion players, is a Calderian example of what Brown calls "conceptual mobility." Each of its six pages contains five musical "events," which the instrumentalists play on specific orders from the conductor. In front of the podium is a numbered board with a sliding red arrow; the conductor moves the arrow to give the page...
...effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture of abstract, color-crazy sound in which dense sonic images were rent by small plinks as sharp and gleaming as broken glass...
...Sound all over. It was rife with rotten social commentators and fourth-rate hip prophets. They played the silly game of Keeping Up with the San Francisco Groups. Instead of becoming a solid block in the great Gothic cathedral of Pop, they became the pale shadows of the stained glass windows of its heroes...
...address, the two-hour parade-shortest in memory, timed to end while there is still enough light for color-television cameras-will get under way up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and their families will watch from a heated presidential box enclosed in bulletproof glass; lesser spectators will look on from bleachers pounded together out of hundreds of miles of top-grade Douglas fir. The paraders will include 56 bands-among them the group from Nixon's old high school in Whittier, Calif.-cadets and midshipmen from the service academies, 13-year-old Vicki...
After showing a seat pass, reporters going to the courtroom are ushered by helmeted deputies to two successive steel doors, each manned by a deputy, who peers through a wire-glass window. Pockets must be emptied, purses checked. Handkerchiefs are shaken, contact-lens fluid sniffed, ballpoint pen cartridges removed and examined. Everyone is frisked, and then a deputy passes a metal-detecting device over each person. The deputies themselves are scrupulously searched before every session...