Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure enough, this Sunday afternoon, these very experiments will take place. Jeffrey L. Goldberg '86, who will direct Sunday afternoon's Musical Offering explains his role: "What I'm doing may not satisfy purists who aren't used to hearing Bach on synthesizer, harp, trombone, or sax, but Bach can stand and transcend particular musical instruments." He added, "As the Musical Offering was Bach's response to the newest instrument of his day--the piano--we're applying it to the newest instruments of ours...
...Goldberg said that unlike the music of some of the romantic composers, Bach's music is so strong that one can almost play it on any instrument, and it will stand...
...said Goldberg, "Bach had the incredible ability to switch from the most learned to the most modern styles. It makes every generation learn something new from him. He can weather the fads of time...
...Goldberg saw this division as needless. "Bach's able to do these technical acrobatics with counterpoint, but that's not the point. It's music and it sounds beautiful. Sometimes people make an artificial dichotomy between this scientific aspect and the musical one. That isn't there," he said...
What went wrong? "We obviously stubbed our toe," says Pierce. "We had what we considered a slump season." Others claim they could sense a growing attitude of caution and complacency. Says Leonard Goldberg, co-creator of the profitable Charlie's Angels and executive producer of this season's dud, Paper Dolls: "What made ABC so successful was that its programming was new, exciting and progressive." Garry Marshall, the creator of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, agrees: "As I was leaving ABC to make films, the programming side was no longer selling innovativeness. The network was getting conservative...